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Key Factors and Forces Fuelling Arab Spring

Key Factors and Forces Fuelling Arab Spring

Introduction

The Arab Spring is an unforeseen change to establish democracy; it is a heroic struggle to denounce social injustice. The Arab Spring is the name that has been identified by medially series of demonstrations of popular and political character that occurred mainly in the Arab region since the beginning of 2011 and that led to the fall of the dictatorships of Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the strengthening of violence in Yemen and civil war in Libya. Some international analysts have found points of similarity between the Arab Spring and anticrisis demonstrations in Europe, Asia and the United States (AsefByat, 2011, 7). The Arab Spring focused the world's attention throughout the year 2011. This is logical, since in international politics there was no precedent whose consequences was so multifaceted and thus overstepped the boundaries of the region. The process, which began in late 2010, caused the change of regimes in four countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen). The purpose of this paper is to analyze Arab spring in which we shall be mainly focusing on factors and forces fuelling Arab Spring.

Factors and Forces fuelling Arab Spring

At the beginning of 2011 and the end of 2010, a range of protests and demonstrations began to mount in Arab World. These demonstrations and protests are called as “Arab Spring” or Arab Awakening. This term expresses the policy direction and control of chaotic processes through a limited number of factors. In other words, a certain force, giving rise to any process that leads him into a chaotic state (Hellyer, 2011, 30). Then, in accordance with its own interests, it remains to create chaos and block order. There were some forces and factors fuelling Arab spring. These factors include demographic trends, economic condition, and the most important political and social influences. Various political experts pointed that United States of America led occupation of Iraq as most important force throughout the region in the spread of democracy. The main factors behind Arab Revolts are not only limited to internal causes thus it is important to analyze the international factors fuelling Arab Spring (Joel, 2011, 14).

Arab Spring" is over leading to a picture of the situation much more complex, contradictory and marked with the sign of the counter of the counter-led imperialism under a blurred mask "democratic". According to experts the Spring began in Tunisia, which for several years was ruled by the dictator Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali. The protests demanded increased wages and greater measures by the government to address the growing gap that sank the North African country. Slowly and conditioned by the lack of Ben Ali's own involvement in solving the problems, demonstrations took a surprising turn to begin to demand the departure of the dictator and his family from power (Bayat, 2007, 7). Egypt was one of the scenes of the Arab Spring. Although the reality of Egypt is very different from the Tunisian expressions ...