Question

What has been the legacy of the Arab Spring on the Middle East and on Syria.

Answer 1

Mixed outcomes have been generated in the Middle East by the Arab Spring. It was originally a movement fueled by financial variables: widespread unemployment and the unfair and grossly unequal distribution of riches compelled young individuals out into the streets to demand the fall of dictatorships that had governed their nations for centuries. Early signs of achievement were obvious in nations like Tunisia and Egypt when it took less than a month for the dictators to be ousted. In the months that followed free and fair elections in Tunisia, political parties were competing and gaining authority, while Egypt was struggling more with the notion of democracy as their first attempt at elections was marred by corruption.

However, the situation today shows signs of a return to pre-Arab Spring politics, and Syria provides evidence that the Arab Spring didn’t have the same emancipating results for all countries involved.

The Arab Spring plunged Syria into today's civil war. But there is a common feeling that the civil war is coming to an end and that President Assad is going to emerge from it intact and in authority, despite the battle that many Syrians have put up. Even some in the West, including the United States and the United Kingdom, have admitted that Assad must go to ensure a stable and lasting peace in Syria. With the assistance of Russia and Iran, Assad's armies have struggled to emerge politically victorious against his opposition, many of whom have terrorists in their ranks. Simultaneously it took a conclusion for this civil war (assuming that one will be reached in the near future),unisia and Egypt have tasted success and fallen back into the traps of authoritarianism.