The Cairo, piazza Tahrir, febbraio 2011 (Foto da http://www.sparked.biz/ ) |
anyone, these days, spoke of "the collapse of the wall of the Maghreb", by analogy with the rvolgimenti that led to the end of comunsiti regimes of Eastern Europe. The comparison is perhaps inappropriate, but the question is certainly interesting and brings to the area I'm involved in this blog and in my Radical Radio transmissions.
There are similarities between what is happening in recent weeks in several Arab countries and 1989 in Eastern Europe? What are the similarities and differences? Because what's happening in the Maghreb in 2011 by us does not raise the same enthusiasm that sparked the events of 1989 in Pases "beyond Curtain "?
From this point of view seem to me interesting, among others, two comments that I found online recently and I also mentioned in my broadcast of March 1.
The first is to Luisa Chiodi, scientific director of Observatory Balkans Caucasus, published Feb. 17 ( "89 without Europe: the spread of democracy in the Arab world" ), whereby, instead that there are similarities, of course there are some significant differences, the comparison between the two experiences can emerge some interesting elements that are displayed and analyzed to come to the conclusion that "the challenges of post-communist transition has been impressive with the simultaneous transformation of economic, political and cultural life after the socialist regimes, and perhaps greater than those facing the Arab world today "but" the 2011 Arab encourages us to continue working because democracy remains the political horizon of all. "
The other recommendation as regards Francesco Rossi writes on his blog Ospolitik . In the post titled "color revolutions" , published Feb. 26, Smith pressed not to be among those who think that the current situation di rivolta nel mondo arabo rappresenti un nuovo 1989 e afferma che le eventuali somiglianze sono solo superficiali: genuina voglia di libertà ed effetto a catena delle rivolte. Perché il paragone abbia senso bisognerebbe invece chiedersi a che tradizione democratica si rifanno e da quale superpotenza vorrebbero liberarsi gli insorti del nord Africa. Più che nel solco del 1989, le rivoluzioni nordafricane sembrano cos' piuttosto assomigliare alle "rivoluzioni colorate" del decennio appena scorso. Da questo punto di vista Rossi conclude che "non sarà facile per i giovani arabi scesi nelle piazze in cerca di libertà evitare gli errori commessi dai loro maestri est-europei e centro-asiatici, risucchiati in their post-revolutionary political systems as if nothing had happened before, as if the color revolutions were only a historic blunder. "
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