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What Caused the Age of Imperialism? AP Euro Bit by Bit #37 new imperialsimThe Compelling Motives of European Imperialism Essay
A new imperialsim placard in the Kafersousah neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Dec. Ten years ago, imperialsiim protest demonstrations that began new imperialsim Tunisia and moved quickly to Egypt were hailed as the harbinger of democracy overtaking the Middle East in one great swoop of history. The result has been demoralization in Tunisia, enforced military rule in Egypt, the destruction of Libya as a viable nation, endless war and famine in Yemen, Syria in ruins, and not a scratch on the most autocratic nations in the region, starting with Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
A lesson to be drawn is that when it comes to trying to unite and modernize relatively new nation states especially in the new imperialsim environment of the Middle Eastthe imperfections of developing ways to govern must deal with sometimes antagonistic, tribal, ethnic and religious groups. If the shell is broken, what emerges may be chaos rather than the new imperialsim, peaceful, party rivalries of Western representative democracy — a political norm quite recent in human history.
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This was what revolutionary movements, notably those labeled as anarchist or Trotskyist, had in mind. In reality, genuine revolution is not a frequent event. On March 27, the vicarious revolutionary cheering section marked the 10th anniversary of the war in Syria by sponsoring a statement by 65 Syrian exilesmany of them academics in Western universities, who are long-term opponents of the Baathist ruling imperialaim in Syria. Gilbert Achcar in The gist of the new imperialsim was to condemn American and other Western independent anti-war writers for failing to support the Syrian revolution that never happened. Because indeed, the democratic Syrian revolution with which those exiles identify did not happen.
Demonstrations and repression do new imperialsim make a revolution.
Those imperizlsim events in early were rapidly hijacked by armed rebels supported by a range of outside powers aspiring to use the disorder to break Syria into pieces — a long-term policy aim of Israel which does not new imperialsim with opposition from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey… or their friends in Washington. The Arab nationalist regime in Syria had been on their new imperialsim for decades. The 65 Syrian signatories live in Western countries. Their text clearly presents Syria as a dichotomy between themselves, who oppose the regime, and Bashar al Assad.]
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