Grand in the Italian Journal of International Studies: Reflections on the Arab Spring
By
Atlantic Council
Recent popular protests in Algeria and Sudan have resurrected debate over the Arab Spring. In 2011, the crux of that debate was neatly summed up in the title of an article that appeared in these pages: “Whither the Arab Spring? 1989 or 1848?” (Springborg 2011). In other words, were these citizen protests the harbingers of thoroughgoing […]