Why Democracy Is Failing the Arab World

November 22, 2021 Topic: Democracy Region: Middle East Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: DemocracySudanLibyaTunisiaSyriaArab Spring

Why Democracy Is Failing the Arab World

The utopian thinking of so much Western policymaking has contributed to the unfavorable situation we witness today.

 

The hopeful success of such a policy would inform future policy in other trouble spots in the region, underpinned by a respect for, and observance of, what citizens of those troubled nations want.

Alamin Shtiwi Abolmagir is the Deputy Director of the Libyan Organization for the Return of Constitutional Legitimacy.

 

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