Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
ISSN
1086-7872
Publisher
Penn Carey Law Legal Scholarship Repository
Language
en-US
Abstract
What quickly became known as the "Arab Spring" is a series of protest movements, reform movements, and revolutions (some bloody and some relatively "bloodless") that has been ongoing for more than two years in the majority-Muslim world of the Middle East and North Africa. Arab Spring recalls both the European Revolutions of 1848, dubbed the "Springtime of the Peoples," as well as the Prague Spring of 1968. And the events have drawn comparisons to the post-Soviet revolutions of 1989. The compilation of essays contained in this Special Issue of the Journal of International Law reflects on these events from a variety of academic and policy perspectives, and grows out of the Journal's November 2011 symposium entitled "Democracy in the Middle East."
Recommended Citation
Ayodeji K. Perrin,
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Arab Spring
,
34
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
i
(2013).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/4068
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