Analysis Of The Arab Uprising By Marc Lynch

Washington University, author Marc Lynch pens a work he titled The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East to dispel thoughts and misconceptions that unrest in the Middle East, particularly in the areas of political and social mobilizations, are in fact a new phenomenon. Utilizing his wealth of experience within the Middle East and topics pertaining to it, Lynch choose to analyze what lead to the downfall of four of the Middle East’s regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria along with the unfolding of events leading up to the “Arab Spring,” along with the results and aftermath of aforementioned events. The “Arab Awakening” or the “Arab Spring,” as ordained by westernized news outlets, was a series of both non-violent

Lynch touches on the fact that as by-product of poor foreign policy and diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, the United States have come to be viewed as more of an obstacle of sorts rather than a “peacekeeper” or “global police force” that is undoubtedly their true intent. However, Lynch does not choose to focus on this, but rather relate it back to the lack of understanding of happenings within the Middle East. Lynch touches on the concept that Americans (most specifically on the American side) and Arabs cannot hope to peacefully co-exist if United States forces and politicians do not learn to more readily accept, engage, listen, and learn from newly appointed leaders and their people and to think anything less is by very nature, stupidity. In the conclusion of his work, Lynch questions why political scientists have found it necessary to rely on outdated theories, rather than developing new ones to deal with current problems and issues along with those that are still to come. In doing so, the United States as well as others outside of the Arab sphere would be able to understand what is going on rather than relying on essentially intuition to figure it out and react in a more calculated, understanding manner. Lynch’s time spent as an advisor to the Obama administration aiding and assisting in their understanding of the Arab Spring, wealth of blogging, and firsthand experiences in the Middle East initiates a conveyance of the idea that he approaches his subject matter and builds his perspective from more than a simple bystander positioning, but rather one of an expert or position of importance to the President. Whereas to an extent, one of his main sources, Twitter, helped to create a vast part of his research and understanding of the