Tunisia: The Jasmine Revolution and Western Foreign Policy

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Channel: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs · 2011 · News & Politics

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In Tunisia, the Jasmine Revolution showed the vulnerability of unpopular and anti-democratic regimes. Should the West support authoritarian regimes to contain political Islam? Should it watch popular passions erect potentially anti-democratic governments? Or is there a third alternative?

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