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Challenges in North Africa after the Arab Spring: Visions from a Transatlantic Perspective


April 15, 2016
11:00am - 12:00pm
Dining Room, Busch Hall
April 15, 2016
11:00am - 12:00pm
Dining Room, Busch Hall

The Arab upheavals of 2011 created a strong expectation for new democracies to prevail against past authoritarian regimes. The post-revolutionary political, social, cultural, ideological, and economic landscapes in the region have been stymied by political instability, sectarianism, extremism, and underlying cross-country variations. The European Union and the United States need constructive and coordinated Middle East and North Africa policies that reflect these vastly different realities and are capable of grappling with the unsolved problem of the Arab Spring's unintended consequences. Bernardino Leon, one of the world's most distinguished voices on foreign policy in the region, will discuss the lessons of the demystified Arab Spring and approaches on balancing the influences of the international community in a region facing difficult choices.

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