The Arab Spring and the Geopolitics of the Middle East ― Emerging Security Threats and Revolutionary Change

This study explores the Arab Spring revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria, and the resultant security implications for the wider region. The Arab Spring affected security in the Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa regions that led to outside military interventions, either directly (NATO and European intervention in Libya and Mali) or indirectly (in Syria). Yossef and Cerami analyze how these threats materialized, their current status, and how best to tackle them.

Dr Amr Yossef is an independent scholar based in Cairo, Egypt. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Bush School of Government, Texas A&M University, and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, USA. He was also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University, USA. His publications have appeared in the European Political Science,Digest of Middle East Studies, and Journal of Strategic Studies.

Dr Joseph Cerami joined the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University in 2001. He teaches courses in national security policy and leadership studies in the Master's Program in International Affairs. He was appointed as the founding director of the Bush School's Public Service Leadership Program in 2002. He is the author of Leadership and Policy Innovations-From Clinton to Bush (2013).