Arab spring in 2011: uprising of arab people in m. east sick of their
corrupt leaders and cronyism and corruption and stagnant economies
Popular movement that started in Tunisia and then took hol in
Egypt and caught fire and then people started protesting all
over arab world
Tunisian pres got thrown , Egypt presi hosni got thrown,
Libyan president got thrown and killed
Created a sit in Syria that’s still going on, civil war,
chaos, why isis came over to fk around

Bc of internal power struggles across m east and theres
no singular forces to step up and take these dudes full
on
o
Starting to be pushed back now
o
They want to redraw the map of the entire modern m east and wipe all
borders of all existing sovereign states across m east and build a super
state based on people
Don’t rec other modern borders, hate leaders and govt, want a
theocrazy with all Islamic people
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couldn’t care about getting recognition
bs is nation state
old school concept of sovereignty about the people
isis: we are gonna form a state of Islamic people of in the world
o
entire rest of world would not support isis lol
not even arab iran or m east
encourage folks to blown up themselves nad ill other over
earth
now it’s a global issue
Russia and u.s. and local air forces are getting involved
o
From euro to Russia to m east, many challenges to establishes
sovereign order
Hasn’t been this shaken since ww2

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- Fall '08
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