From WSJbooks: Michael Doran reviews “The Arab Winter” by Noah Feldman
Noah Feldman, Harvard law professor and Middle East expert, is a democracy promoter who’s been mugged by reality. In “The Arab Winter: A Tragedy,” he analyzes the wave of popular protests that swept the Middle East in 2011.
The Arab Spring, as it was optimistically called, generated a sense that democracy was spreading across the region just as it had, in previous decades, across Eastern Europe and Latin America. With the benefit of hindsight, Mr. Feldman now concedes that the Arab Spring “brought little good.” A single ray of light did appear in Tunisia, but everywhere else the “heroic narrative” gave way to “something...
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