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Nothing to see here: why the Arab Spring cannot happen in the West

OPINION: What were Westerners thinking while the Arab Spring played out? With special audio feature.

Fri, 18 Mar 2016
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One of the more fascinating dynamics of the Arab Spring movement was its effects on Western observers. There was a palpable jealousy of the protesting Egyptians, Tunisians and Libyans.

The jealousy wasn’t drawn from the protesters' ability to rise up against their oppressors. Rather, I think, it

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