blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2016/11/16/book-review-unfinished-revolutions-yemen-libya-and-tunisia-after-the-arab-spring-by-ibrahim-In Unfinished Revolutions: Yemen, Libya and Tunisia After the Arab Spring , Ibrahim Fraihat examines three countries grappling with political transition post-revolution, looking at how each has sought to establish a new social contract amidst the potential revival of unresolved tensions. While Hesham Shafick questions the limitations of the book's overarching emphasis on western-centric conflict resolution literature, this is nonetheless a seminal reference text for students looking at the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
The uprisings connected to the Arab Spring have thus far failed to produce social change. The dynamics of these uprisings instead generated a number of trends that are likely to continue to destabilise the Arab world and prevent peace and development. Prevailing trends in the post-Arab Spring era include the prevalence of counter revolutions, widespread violence and armed conflicts, new patterns of alliances, external interventions and thriving proxies, raising sectarian politics, ineffective governance, terrorism, and migration. While these trends have a negative impact on people’s basic demands for socio-economic and political stability and development, they will provide and shape the foundations for other revolutions in the future. To avoid future revolutions and civil wars and stimulate peace and development in the MENA region, those driving patterns of instability will need to be altered.
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