POLI 340 Lecture Notes - Small Arms Trade, Arab Spring, Saudia
14 Mar 2014
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On one hand the overthrow was popular in egypt but it was a coup again. What implications it has for other militaries in the arab world. Egypt will go back to a new transition or will it go towards another military dominated regime. Cos now they chose their own leaders or was it a failure cos of the small arms proliferation. You cant really answer these questions because it isn"t clear yet. It will take years for stuff to settle down and see how it turned out to be. World bank estimate transitions take 20-25 years for an effective transitions. Essay theorize what is imp and what isn"t. justify. Civil war in libya but historically it was the most stable place on the planet in terms of regime transitions. Most of the regimes of 70s survived till 2010. (exceptions in iran,
