The Post-2011 Arab World: Change is the Name of the game (JMD on Mobilizing Ideas)
The Post-2011 Arab World: Change is the Name of the game
By James M. Dorsey
Common wisdom has it that ultimately failed or troubled popular revolts in 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa have sparked bloody civil wars and violent extremism, and given autocracy a new lease on life.
Indeed, there is no denying that a brutal civil war in Syria has killed…