POLI 340 Quiz: POLI-340-reading-notes-Quiz-1

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 340
• Professor: Rex Brynen

Document Summary

Foreign affairs: why middle east studies missed the arab spring: Prior to the arab spring, arab citizens had demonstrated the desire and ability to mobilise against their governments. But governments had been successful, before 2011, in coopting and containing them. >hence, academics focused their attention on explaining the mechanisms that arab states had developed to weather popular dissent. Prior to the arab spring, most scholars attributed the stability of arab dictatorships to 2 common factors: Assumption of close links between those in power, and military, served to make claim that arab armies and security forces would never break with their rulers. Most middle east scholars also assumed that arab nationalism had gone dormant hence, they missed the communal wave of 2011. The new pan-arabism doesn"t seem to challenge the regional map. New pan-arabism: what happens in one arab state can affect others in unanticipated and powerful ways.