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Dear Arab World: Your peoples have demonstrated enormous courage and idealism in challenging a whole series of seedy police states throughout the Middle East.

10 Ways Arab Democracies Can Avoid American Mistakes

1848 and 2011

Review Essay

How Can Egypt Avoid the Fate of other Post-Revolutionary States? Post-revolutionary governments throughout history have a poor record of generating economic growth or fundamentally altering the structure of the national economy. The current slump in Egypt’s economy suggests it is going the same way as other post-revolutionary states.

http://www.majalla.com/eng/2011/10/article55226902

Lessons in Reform | The Majalla

http://www.majalla.com/eng/2012/03/article55229867

The Arab World after the Arab Awakenings Over a year since Tunisia’s awakening, the Arab World faces a critical juncture. How far have ensuing events affected the order of the region?

A Region Transformed?

The Cynics at the Gates - By James Traub

Something big has happened in international diplomacy: The Arab League, a body which until just the other day defended the sovereignty of its members at all costs, is demanding that a skittish U.N. Security Council take forceful action to stop atrocities committed by Syria, one of its own members. The league's call last year for a no-fly zone to protect civilians in Libya felt like an aberration, because Muammar al-Qaddafi had placed himself so far beyond the pale among his own neighbors.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/03/the_cynics_at_the_gates

The Arab League is today considering the demand by the Syrian National Council, human rights organizations and a wide array of other actors that it freeze Syria's membership over its killing of civilians.

http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/11/11/since_when_do_arab_states_care_about_rtp

Arab leaders shouldn't kill their people?

I've detected a growing tendency to issue obituaries for the "Arab spring." This impulse is understandable given the relentless turmoil in Yemen, the brutal repression that continues in Syria, the simmering tensions in Libya and Bahrain, and the recent resurgence of sometimes violent protest against the military regime in Egypt.

What does History Teach Us about the Arab Revolutions

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/11/27/requiem_for_the_arab_spring

Tribes and Tribulations | The Majalla

Yemen’s tribal society is at odds with democratic reform

Al Qaeda's Challenge

Postscript

The "Arab Spring"

Chris Doyle, Caabu's Director, analyses coverage of uprisings across the Arab world in the past three months. (Article published in the Next Century Foundations Media Credibility Index ) Most people in the West, analysts and experts included, were stunned and amazed at the revolts which spread across the Arab World that started in Tunisia in January.

The press and the Arab spring: Six reasons for failure | Caabu

http://www.caabu.org/news/news/press-and-arab-spring-six-reasons-failure

Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos

The Arab Counterrevolution by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley

Taking Stock | The Majalla

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Arab Justice for Arab Violence - Aryeh Neier - Project Syndicate

Immunity, Accountability, and the Arab Uprisings: Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Discusses the Role of the Human Rights Community

On 14 February 2012, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat participated in an American University Law School's 2012 Founders' Celebration entitled "The Impact of the Arab Spring Throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa: Building the Rule of Law and the Role of the International Community in Domestic Conflicts."