Arab Spring 2.0: New protests, same failures that plague the Middle East GlobeDebate
A man gestures during a protest against the appointment of interim president Abdelkader Bensalah demanding radical changes to the political system, in Algiers, Algeria, April 10, 2019.Bessma Momani is a professor at the University of Waterloo and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
The Arab Spring is simply not over because the same governance failures plaguing the Middle East and North Africa are getting worse, not better. Arab governments have been banking for years that the horror of Syria’s failed revolution and its repressive regime’s crackdown on protesters would dissuade Arab citizens from returning to public squares.
After months of protests, Algeria’s ailing president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been replaced by a 77-year-old interim president who is firmly entrenched in the old guard. In Sudan, an alternative to President – and alleged war criminal – Omar al-Bashir is reportedly being negotiated with the security services, external patrons and military.
In this Arab Spring 2.0, Algerian and Sudanese youth have the benefit – and the conundrum – of seeing what happens when leaders are deposed and a deep militarized state remains , and when leaders are deposed but the international community loses interest in helping to build and support a nascent civil society .
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