How have the Arab revolutions influenced politics in North Africa, Middle East and the world?
Student: Aigerim Oryngaziyeva
E15
The revolutions that swept the Arab world over the past two years have revealed the extreme fragility of the major Arab states. “Arab Spring” shakes the Middle East for half years. Many people believe that the key driving the force behind the revolutions are new technologies of social media. Bloody revolutionary processes taking place in the Middle East and North Africa continue to be at the center of world attention. Began in the Arab world one after the other protests that grew into an armed resistance to the government, is gradually nearing its logical conclusion - first Egypt, now Libya and, in parallel, Syria, where the situation has been extremely aggravated (Islam and the Arab revolutions,2011). When it created by Qaddafi Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, which represents people 's power, all the people of Libya had social benefits and guarantees. However, that cannot be said of the neighboring Egypt (Arabs unfinished buisiness,2012). There have been achieved social guarantees, such as the high level average wages, social benefits, free education and health care. It was eradicated illiteracy among the population. There were achieved equal rights for men and women. Significantly reduced the rate of unemployment, there was no homeless. There had been provided with housing each family by government expense.The society had not got the social stratification. (16 things Libya will never see again, 2011) Rich people did not affect the state administration.All of this was created on oil money. Royalties from the sale of oil were available each family, as the entire oil and gas owned by the state. Country has been socio-economically stable and fully developed, evenly distributing oil resources among the population. But improving the economic well-being
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