Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

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Arab Awakening: Are the US and EU Missing the Challenge?

Danya Greenfield, Rosa Balfour

June 2012

Atlantic Council

Abstract

The authors Danya Greenfield, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, and Rosa Balfour, head of the Europe in the World Program, European Policy Center, analyze the progress made to date, but conclude that despite ambitious rhetoric by policymakers, the response of the United States and the EU has not yet captured the potential of the moment or lived up to the high expectations that were set in the early days of these transitions.