The Arab Spring at Five

March 14, 2016

Snapshot March 14, 2016

Introduction

Gideon Rose

May/June 2005

Essay May/June 2005

Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East

Bernard Lewis

May/June 2011

Comment May/June 2011

Demystifying the Arab Spring

Parsing the Differences Between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya

Lisa Anderson

May/June 2011

Comment May/June 2011

Understanding the Revolutions of 2011

Weakness and Resilience in Middle Eastern Autocracies

Jack A. Goldstone

July/August 2011

Essay July/August 2011

Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring

The Myth of Authoritarian Stability

F. Gregory Gause III

March/April 2012

Essay March/April 2012

The Arab Spring at One

A Year of Living Dangerously

Fouad Ajami

January/February 2013

Essay January/February 2013

The Promise of the Arab Spring

In Political Development, No Gain Without Pain

Sheri Berman

January/February 2013

Essay January/February 2013

The Mirage of the Arab Spring

Deal With the Region You Have, Not the Region You Want

Seth G. Jones

March 06, 2013

Letter From March 06, 2013

Tunisia's Post-Revolution Blues

Stagnation and Stalemate Where the Arab Spring Began

Aaron Y. Zelin

September 17, 2013

Snapshot September 17, 2013

Tunisia’s Lessons for the Middle East

Why the First Arab Spring Transition Worked Best

Ibrahim Sharqieh

October 23, 2014

Snapshot October 23, 2014

The Tunisia Model

Did Tunis Win the Arab Spring?

Brian Klaas and Marcel Dirsus

December 23, 2014

Snapshot December 23, 2014

Democracy by Necessity

Tunisians Go to the Polls

Marina Ottaway

January 31, 2016

Snapshot January 31, 2016

Tumult in Tunisia

Weathering the Economic and Political Storms

Brian Klaas

July 05, 2012

Snapshot July 05, 2012

The Muslim Brotherhood's Long Game

Egypt's Ruling Party Plots its Path to Power

Eric Trager

December 02, 2012

Snapshot December 02, 2012

Morsi's Mistake

The Error Behind the Uproar in Egypt

Steven A. Cook

July 09, 2013

Snapshot July 09, 2013

Even Good Coups Are Bad

Lessons for Egypt from the Philippines, Venezuela, and Beyond

Omar Encarnación

August 28, 2013

Snapshot August 28, 2013

First They Came for the Islamists

Egypt’s Tunisian Future

Michael J. Koplow

January 31, 2014

Snapshot January 31, 2014

Can a Myth Rule a Nation?

The Truth About Sisi's Candidacy in Egypt

Joshua Stacher

July 21, 2015

Snapshot July 21, 2015

Egypt's Durable Misery

Why Sisi's Regime Is Stable

Eric Trager

January 17, 2016

Snapshot January 17, 2016

The Brotherhood Breaks Down

Will the Group Survive the Latest Blow?

Eric Trager and Marina Shalabi

January 25, 2016

Snapshot January 25, 2016

Did Sisi Save Egypt?

The Arab Spring at Five

Nathan Brown and Yasser El-Shimy

March/April 2012

Comment March/April 2012

NATO's Victory in Libya

The Right Way to Run an Intervention

Ivo H. Daalder and James G. Stavridis

July 12, 2012

Snapshot July 12, 2012

Libya's Militia Menace

The Challenge After the Elections

Frederic Wehrey

November/December 2012

Comment November/December 2012

After Qaddafi

The Surprising Success of the New Libya

Dirk Vandewalle

July 28, 2014

Snapshot July 28, 2014

Libya on the Brink

How to Stop the Fighting

Jason Pack

March/April 2015

Essay March/April 2015

Obama’s Libya Debacle

How a Well-Meaning Intervention Ended in Failure

Alan J. Kuperman

May/June 2015

Response May/June 2015

Who Lost Libya?

Obama’s Intervention in Retrospect

Derek Chollet and Ben Fishman; Alan J. Kuperman

February 10, 2016

Snapshot February 10, 2016

Setting the Record Straight on Benghazi

What Really Led to Libya's Chaos

Ethan Chorin

February 05, 2012

Snapshot February 05, 2012

Russia's Line in the Sand on Syria

Why Moscow Wants To Halt the Arab Spring

Dmitri Trenin

March 20, 2012

Snapshot March 20, 2012

Assad Family Values

How the Son Learned to Quash a Rebellion From His Father

Patrick Seale

March 20, 2012

Snapshot March 20, 2012

Why Washington Didn't Intervene In Syria Last Time

Comparing 1982 to 2012

Richard W. Murphy

April 16, 2012

Snapshot April 16, 2012

Alawites for Assad

Why the Syrian Sect Backs the Regime

Leon Goldsmith

August 13, 2012

Letter From August 13, 2012

Ramadan in Aleppo

A Letter From Rebel-Controlled Syria

Michael Weiss

March 25, 2013

Snapshot March 25, 2013

The Real Reason Putin Supports Assad

Mistaking Syria for Chechnya

Fiona Hill

March/April 2015

March/April 2015

Syria's President Speaks

A Conversation With Bashar al-Assad

August 11, 2015

Snapshot August 11, 2015

The New Great Game

How Regional Powers are Carving Up Syria

Andrew J. Tabler

November 04, 2015

Snapshot November 04, 2015

The Not-So-Great Game in Syria

And How to End It

Andrew J. Tabler

September 28, 2015

Snapshot September 28, 2015

Syria's Good Neighbors

How Jordan and Lebanon Sheltered Millions of Refugees

David Schenker

October 05, 2015

Snapshot October 05, 2015

No (Gulf) Country for Syrian Refugees

The Kafala System and the Migration Crisis

Michael Ewers and Justin Gengler

March/April 2015

Essay March/April 2015

ISIS Is Not a Terrorist Group

Why Counterterrorism Won’t Stop the Latest Jihadist Threat

Audrey Kurth Cronin

January 10, 2016

Snapshot January 10, 2016

ISIS' Social Contract

What the Islamic State Offers Civilians

Mara Revkin

January 04, 2016

Snapshot January 04, 2016

How to Defeat ISIS

The Case for U.S. Ground Forces

James F. Jeffrey

January/February 2016

Essay January/February 2016

Obama’s Way

The President in Practice

Fred Kaplan

Comment

The End of Pax Americana

Why Washington’s Middle East Pullback Makes Sense

Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson

March/April 2016

Essay March/April 2016

Fight or Flight

America’s Choice in the Middle East

Kenneth M. Pollack

November/December 2015

Comment November/December 2015

Getting 
Over Egypt

Time to Rethink Relations

Michael Wahid Hanna

February 07, 2016

Snapshot February 07, 2016

The Next Front Against ISIS

The Right Way to Intervene in Libya

Frederic Wehrey and Wolfram Lacher

February 09, 2016

Snapshot February 09, 2016

Algeria After the Arab Spring

Algiers Came Out Ahead—But the Good Times Could Be Over

Yahia H. Zoubir

January 25, 2016

Snapshot January 25, 2016

Ankara's Failure

How Turkey Lost the Arab Spring

Jonathan Schanzer and Merve Tahiroglu

January 19, 2016

Snapshot January 19, 2016

Assad Has It His Way

The Peace Talks and After

Joshua Landis and Steven Simon

February 08, 2016

Snapshot February 08, 2016

The Right Way to Think About the Syria Talks

They Aren't About Syria, They Are About Russia

Samuel Charap and Jeremy Shapiro