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The ‘Arab Spring’ and the West: Seven Lessons from History

The ‘Arab Spring’ and the West: Seven Lessons from History

by Seumas Milne
There’s a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the bulk of the globe’s oil reserves, the Arab world has been the target of continual interference and intervention ever since it became formally independent.

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