Moderation:
Cengiz Günay (Österreichisches Institut für Internationale Politik)
The Arab Spring has been the name given for a series of popular revolts covering the major countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Irrupting in the first weeks of 2011, these movements developed unevenly, encountered varying reactions from the local, regional and international actors, including bloody repression, and achieved different degrees of success. In this talk, Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi will shed light on the common factors and forces that made these events and explain their simultaneity, analyze their discourse and comment on their impact on the future of the Arab region in the light of the Euro-American political and military reactions.