The United States and the Arab Spring

Volume : (9), Issue : 145, January - 2019

Abstract : Being independent and having the extreme power, the United States confirms the second and third theories, which are related to the political and military factors on one hand, and human rights and the ineffectiveness of aids on the other. These are applicable in the study presented in the intervention of the US in Egypt which was as the bridge to the US to reunite with the Muslim world after the Arab spring, and the involvement of the second theory related to the political and military factors imposed by the US to keep the region for them under the name of democracy taking into consideration the social culture too. The US was also able to get involved in the replacement of the leader in Yemen, keeping the ruling family in Bahrain, enforcing Gaddafi to resign in Libya, and yielding the atrocity of Assad in Syria without having successful results through these policies. The American foreign policy has a fundamental purpose, which is diffusion of democracy all over the world. Since its birth, the United States was a democratic state; the first cultured and political thinkers who founded the Unites States came out with an accurate democratic individualist system and an efficient charter to protect it. In their beliefs, Americans think that democratic system is the normal political system because the nations can choose and change the governments and this system defends the rights of human. According to Boone, the United States seeks to spread its stamps of democracy all over the world either by conviction or by force (Boone, 2015). After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, democracy prospered in the world while the Middle East region was still ruled by different dictatorial regimes (Way & Levitsky, 2010). After the attacks of eleven of September, the United States decided to strip the terrorists that support the dictatorial governments in Afghanistan and Iraq through a war and to allow the Arab to elect their governments.

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