From the Arab Spring to ISIS: The Upheavals in the Middle East and What They Mean for Israel
When: Mon., Dec. 8, 7 p.m. 2014
Beginning with the Arab Spring, this talk will offer an alternative explanation to the democracy/ autocracy paradigm, arguing that the Arab Spring was actually a clash between the forces of modernity and tradition and an outgrowth of the profound socio-economic crisis that faces much of the Arab world today.