GEOGRAPHY/CIVIL ENGINEERING In what ways has the destabilization of the \"Arab S
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GEOGRAPHY/CIVIL ENGINEERING
In what ways has the destabilization of the "Arab Spring" region impacted United States policy and/or politics? Provide a link to a relevant news article from a credible, reputable news source (think Washington Post, NPR, New York Times, Reuters, etc.). Avoid Fox News, Huffington Post, Breitbart and any other news source that has an obvious and heavy handed bias. Though these news organizations do engage in and present actual news, their penchant for selling opinion as news is incompatible with the requirements of this assignment. Explain why you chose that particular article.
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Arab spring is the wave of protest of both voilent and non voilent nature roits,coups and civil war that arose in the parts of North Africa and middle East, that started on December 17,2010 in Tunisia with the Tunsian revolution. Soon the revolution was being supported by other 5 countries namely-Libya,Egypt,Yemen,Syria and Bahrain.The revolutionist had a major slogan-"the people wants to bring down the regime".
Eventhough the protest starts to fade in mid 2012 as many protestors have been punished by the authorities severly but there were many clashes between the authorities and the the Syrian Civil War, Iraqi insurgency, following civil war,the Egyptian Crisis and coup, the Libyan Civil War.
howewver In the Middle East, the critical role of foreign powers was confirmed, during Egypt July 2013 military coup and its tragic aftermath. In the two and a half years leading up to the removal of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, the United States failed to put any significant pressure on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which dominated and corrupted Egypt’s transition in those early, critical days after the revolution. The United States formally bet that a military led transition would facilitate the democratization process while safeguarding American interests. SCAF, though, grew increasingly power, culminating in one very bad week in June 2012 when the military and its allies dissolved parliament, put martial law into power, and a constitutional additional stripping the presidency of many of its powers.
After the July 3 coup and subsequent crackdown against the Brotherhood and other Islamists, the U.S. response was also being nullified. Despite a legal obligation to suspend aid in the event of a coup, the Obama administration, insisted on the importance of maintaining the flow of military aid to Egypt. A month after the military’s intervention and in the lead up to its massacre of Morsi supporters near the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque—Secretary of State John Kerry even appeared to support the coup, saying that the army was “in effect … restoring democracy” and averting civil war. Egyptian military officials wagered, rightly, that they could get away with what became, the worst mass killing in modern Egyptian history—as well as one of the worst single-day mass killings in recent decades anywhere in the world.
America’s relative silence was no accident. To offer a strong, coherent response to the killings would have required a strategy, which would have required more, not less, involvement. This would have been at cross-purposes with the entire administration’s policy. Obama was engaged in a concerted effort to reduce its footprint in the Middle East. The phrase “leading from behind” quickly became a disapproval for Obama’s foreign-policy doctrine, but it captured a very real shift in America’s posture. In pursuing this strategy in the Middle East, the United States left a power vacuum—and a proxy struggle. During Morsi’s year-long tenure, Qatar became the single largest foreign donor to Egypt, at over $5 billion.
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