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Here's a piece on the wider subject: https://fpif.org/the_economics_of_the_arab_spring/ https://fpif.org/the_economics_of_the_arab_spring/ It doesn't directly

Here's a piece on the wider subject: https://fpif.org/the_economics_of_the_arab_spring/ https://fpif.org/the_economics_of_the_arab_spring/ It doesn't directly make the connection, but it does allude to it: > The recent global financial, food, and energy crises accentuated the failure of economic liberalization to adequately spread the region’s wealth. Significant declines in the tourism, financial, and real estate sectors due to the financial crisis crippled the few well-functioning economic engines. In other words: these already economically and politically unstable nations were tipped over the edge by the shockwaves of the global financial crisis. I also wonder whether the impact of a decline in tourism is being understated; both Tunisia and Egypt are/were tremendously popular holiday destinations among Europeans, and with the rise in austerity, I can easily imagine a decline in this tourism causing economic problems in those nations.

corv 8y ago
The decline in tourism was a direct result of destabilizing the Middle East and North Africa due to wars and the resulting increase of terrorism.
- madengr 8y ago
  The terrorism is due to Islam. Unfortunately, dictators are needed to keep Islam in check, as it’s wholly incompatible with democracy.
- hef19898 8y ago
  Kind of a vicious cycle. First, Europeans travelled less, then these countries became "unsafe", people travelled even less to these countries aggrevating the existing Problems making these countries even unsafer. Whatever was there first, well I can't tell. Not that in matters as it doesn't change the result.
m_st 8y ago
As corv just wrote, the decline in tourism is a result of the Arab Sprint and the instability, let alone wars, it produced. Not the other way around. The linked article from 2011 is great reading in hindsight. > This might be the last and best opportunity for the West to facilitate the creation of another “island of peace” — a sympathetic democratic community in the much-troubled Arab world. If there ever was such a plan, it failed miserably. Anyway I'm no expert on the subject, just a witness of the time and I don't remember anything that links these two.

corv 8y ago

The decline in tourism was a direct result of destabilizing the Middle East and North Africa due to wars and the resulting increase of terrorism.

madengr 8y ago
The terrorism is due to Islam. Unfortunately, dictators are needed to keep Islam in check, as it’s wholly incompatible with democracy.
hef19898 8y ago
Kind of a vicious cycle. First, Europeans travelled less, then these countries became "unsafe", people travelled even less to these countries aggrevating the existing Problems making these countries even unsafer. Whatever was there first, well I can't tell. Not that in matters as it doesn't change the result.

m_st 8y ago

As corv just wrote, the decline in tourism is a result of the Arab Sprint and the instability, let alone wars, it produced. Not the other way around. The linked article from 2011 is great reading in hindsight. > This might be the last and best opportunity for the West to facilitate the creation of another “island of peace” — a sympathetic democratic community in the much-troubled Arab world. If there ever was such a plan, it failed miserably. Anyway I'm no expert on the subject, just a witness of the time and I don't remember anything that links these two.