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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE PROTEST WAVE that started in Tunisia in January has spread to a significant part of the Middle East and North Africa. To some degree or other, it has affected about 10 states with ruling regimes collapsing in two countries (as of press time) and with three being in an exclusively difficult situation, fraught with collapse. When, not so long ago, mankind was joyfully seeing in the New Year, 2011, no one even had an inkling of an imminent large-scale upheaval in the Arab world. So the legitimate question is: What happened next and how should the ongoing developments in this volatile part of the world be defined?
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