Elliott Abrams: “The Arab Spring came from the bottom up.”

On the recordNovember 28, 2017

The Arab Spring came from the bottom up.

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Elliott Abrams

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Abrams contrasts the grassroots nature of the Arab Spring with the top-down changes in Saudi Arabia.

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