Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 06/2011

The Great Arab Revolution: Challenges, Dilemmas and Opportunities?

Graeme P. Herd

March 2011

The Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Abstract

Long-standing authoritarian regimes (dynastic republics) in Tunisia and Egypt have fallen and Libya is in civil war. Peaceful demonstrations in Bahrain and Iran have been met with incumbent regime force, while Morocco, Yemen, Jordan, Djibouti, Iraq, Oman and Algeria all report popular protest.