Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (Reuters / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have ...

There is a fundamental sickness in liberal foreign policy. So argues John Rossomando, an analyst at the Washington-based think tank for The Center for Security Policy and a former researcher for the ...

A decade on, the memory of the Arab Spring sparks ambiguous feelings in the Middle East and Europe. The European public excitement concerning the uprisings from Tunisia to Syria is long gone. Along ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It only took one decade. Ten years ago this month, democratic movements, ...

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It's been 10 years since Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was forced from power by millions of protesters. It’s considered one of the high points of what was then called the "Arab Spring." And we were ...

There is a second Arab Spring in the air in North Africa. In Algeria and Sudan, two of the most miserably repressive dictators on the African continent have fallen to popular protests. That sounds ...

Sharan Grewal is an assistant professor of government at William & Mary and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received a Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University in 2018 and was ...

Bitcoin is not simply a new monetary tool, a new currency, or an additional asset class. I tell people that Bitcoin is a Monetary Revolution. The Bitcoin eco-system is full of innovations to bring ...

In his otherwise incisive May 24 review of Noah Feldman’s “The Arab Winter: A Tragedy,” Robert F. Worth presents the Arab Spring uprisings as discrete historical events that bear little relationship ...

John Rossomando, The Arab Spring Ruse: How the Muslim Brotherhood Duped Washington in Libya and Syria (Washington, DC: The Center for Security Policy, 2021), pp. 128. There is a fundamental sickness ...