Revolution Spinning in the Wind; The Arab Awakening  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8742 (Jul. 2011), page 41-43.
Topik: Arab Countries; Revolution; Regime; Government Falls; Politic Condition

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Hundreds of thousands throng the main square of an Arab capital in a stunning show of defiance. Disgraced, the government falls. The opposition sweeps into power. Hated regime figures scuttle offstage. Exiles return and political prisoners walk free. The talk is of a complete break with the past. But this is not Egypt or Tunisia, where the wave of political upheaval sweeping the Arab world crested last winter, toppling the regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. This was Lebanon in 2005. Six years later the forces that triumphed in what was then fancifully dubbed the Cedar revolution are in disarray. Lebanon's chronic plagues all persist: sectarianism, corruption, the insecurity brought by a weak central state, foreign meddling and armed party militias. Lebanon differs from other Arab countries. Its messy pluralism does not fit the mould of patriarchal police states that took hold in the region in the 1950s, a time of military coups and oil bonanzas. Still, Lebanon's fizzled revolution, like those of Algeria's Islamists in 1991, of Iran's Green movement in 2009, or of Bahrain's protesters earlier this year, should serve as a caution to people who see in the current Arab spring (or awakening) a transformation as inexorable as the change of seasons.

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