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This chapter explains how the future success of the Arab Spring in reaching a modern, democratic states, as well as security of the US, European and other Middle East and North African states will require collaborative efforts to improve their effectiveness for aligning and integrating the necessary diplomacy, defense and development capabilities. Integrating the instruments of power in the case of the recent revolutions in MENA will not be an easy goal. That, however, does not address the ends of a new policy based on critical theory and human security. For insights on the objective we can return to President Obama’s own words in his speech in Cairo in 2009. Whether the US can substantially implement the 3D’s of diplomacy, defense and development, given the current geopolitics of the Middle East, in new and creative ways to address the issues of the Arab Spring remains the test of US leadership.
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Yossef, A., Cerami, J.R. (2015). Redemption? The Geopolitics of MENA and Mediterranean Security. In: The Arab Spring and the Geopolitics of the Middle East: Emerging Security Threats and Revolutionary Change. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504081_4
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