Arabiens dystre fremtid

Background
 

Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars.

Egypt’s epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain erupted in smothering sectarian repression.

Syria and Islamic State

Syria proved the greatest victim of all, ripped apart by internationally fueled insurgencies and an externally supported, bloody-minded regime. Amidst the chaos, a virulently militant group declared an Islamic State, seizing vast territories and inspiring terrorism across the globe. What happened?

Marc Lynch’s new book The New Arab Wars is a profound illumination of the causes of this nightmare. It details the costs of the poor choices made by regional actors, delivers a scathing analysis of Western misreadings of the conflict, and condemns international interference that has stoked the violence.

Deeply informed by inside access to the Obama administration’s decision-making process and first-hand interviews with protestors, politicians, diplomats, and journalists from the Arab world, Marc Lynch’s narrative of a vital region’s collapse is both wildly dramatic and likely to prove definitive.

Most important, he shows that the region’s upheavals have only just begun—and that the hopes of Arab regimes and Western policy makers to retreat to old habits of authoritarian stability are doomed to fail.

Please join us for a discussion of the book’s main finding with Marc Lynch.

Speakers

Marc Lynch is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and the director of the Project on Middle East Political Science.

He is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a contributing editor of the Washington Post's Monkey Cage political science blog. His most recent books include The New Arab Wars, The Arab Uprising, and The Arab Uprisings Explained.

Helle Malmvig, Senior Researcher, DIIS

Rasmus Boserup, Senior Researcher, DIIS

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