Reasons For The Arab Spring

Introduction-

The Arab spring was a series of protests and armed rebellions against the government which took place in Middle East in early 2011. These protests were a core expression of deep-seated resentment at the ageing Arab dictatorships. Due to the brutality of the security apparatus, unemployment, rising prices, and corruption that followed the privatization of state assets in some countries, the people got angry and started the protest which gave rise to many such protests in the whole of middle east.

There was no consensus on the political and economic model and Protesters in monarchies like Jordan and Morocco wanted to reform the system under the current rulers. Some calling for an immediate transition to constitutional monarchy,

But because the events in the Middle East went in a less straightforward direction and in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen there was an uncertain transition period and Syria and Libya were drawn into a civil conflict, while the wealthy monarchies in the Persian Gulf remained largely unaffected, the use of the term the “Arab Spring” was criticized for being inaccurate and simplistic.

Reasons for Arab spring-

1. Arab Youth-

The youth was one of the main reasons for arab spring as there was a large no of youth population in arab countries which was sitting on a demographic time bomb for decades. According to the UN development program, the population in arab countries doubled between 1975 to 2005 and Egypt consisted of 2/3rd population which was under 30 years of age.

As a result Political and economic development in most Arab states simply could not keep up with the staggering increase in the population and this incompetence of the government laid the seeds for their own demise.

2. Unemployment-

The Arab world has a long history of struggle for political change, from leftist groups to Islamist radicals. The protest could not have been evolved if it was not for

It called on the Arabs to take back their country away from the corrupt elites, it was altogether a mixture of patriotism. Instead of ideological slogans, national flags were wielded by the protesters along with the iconic rallying call that became the symbol of the uprising across the region: “The People Want the Fall of the Regime!” .The Arab Spring united, for a brief time, both Islamists and secularist, left wing groups and advocates of liberal economic reform, middle classes and the poor came together as one and revolted against the