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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

Editor's note · Context

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

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