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Robert Kaplan on the Politics of the Past and Future of the Greater Middle East

Democracy Paradox

CHAPTER

The Failure of the Arab Spring and the Revolutions of 1848

This chapter discusses the comparison between the Arab Spring and the revolutions of 1848, highlighting how both were failures in establishing democracies. However, the speaker argues that the revolutions of 1848 still had an impact by introducing ideas of constitutionalism that influenced future developments.

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