Publication: Paradojas y desafíos de las "primaveras árabes"
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López García, Bernabé
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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La Primavera árabe ha sido el inicio de transiciones políticas frágiles, sin saberse con certeza hacia dónde caminan: hacia la democracia, como pensaban los jóvenes manifestantes de las plazas de Túnez o El Cairo, o hacia el reino de la charia como reivindican quienes más tarde se apropiaron del movimiento. Este esplendor primaveral que presentaban ciertos medios de comunicación se ha sobredimensionado. Se habla de paradojas porque movimientos que presagiaban cambio, han producido, tras los resultados electorales, una cierta involución. Detrás de estas minorías activas, había y hay unas sociedades profundamente conservadoras, patriarcales, conformadas al mal menor del statu quo. Se habla también de desafíos. El gran desafío para este mundo árabe es lograr un crecimiento sostenido suficiente para lograr el acceso al empleo de todos estos jóvenes. La era Obama, con su famoso discurso en la Universidad Americana de El Cairo en mayo de 2009, inauguró la normalización con un actor decisivo, el islamismo moderado, hasta entonces demonizado y sobre el que hoy recae buena parte de la responsabilidad de llevar a buen puerto o al fracaso a las primaveras que se inauguraron en 2011.
The Arab Spring was the beginning offragilepolitical transitions, but we don’t know for surewhetherthey are leadingtowards democracy, as the young protestersofTunisor Cairo thought, ortowards the ruleof Sharia as those who later took over the revolution claim. Thisspring splendorpresented by the mediawas clearlyoverstated.We could talk of a paradox,becausethose movements portendingchangeshaveproduced an involutionafterthe results of the elections. Behind theseactive minorities, there were and still are deeply conservative and patriarchal societies, contented bythe lesser evilof the status quo. We can also talkof challenges.The great challenge fortheArab world is to achieve a sustained growthcapable of providing employ-ment to all these young people. TheObama era, withhis famousspeech at theAmerican University inCairoin May 2009, normalized the relationships with moderate Islamism, hithertodemonized andwhichtodaybearstheresponsi-bility of leading those 2011springs towards success or failure.
The Arab Spring was the beginning offragilepolitical transitions, but we don’t know for surewhetherthey are leadingtowards democracy, as the young protestersofTunisor Cairo thought, ortowards the ruleof Sharia as those who later took over the revolution claim. Thisspring splendorpresented by the mediawas clearlyoverstated.We could talk of a paradox,becausethose movements portendingchangeshaveproduced an involutionafterthe results of the elections. Behind theseactive minorities, there were and still are deeply conservative and patriarchal societies, contented bythe lesser evilof the status quo. We can also talkof challenges.The great challenge fortheArab world is to achieve a sustained growthcapable of providing employ-ment to all these young people. TheObama era, withhis famousspeech at theAmerican University inCairoin May 2009, normalized the relationships with moderate Islamism, hithertodemonized andwhichtodaybearstheresponsi-bility of leading those 2011springs towards success or failure.
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Res Publica: Revista de Filosofía Política, n.º 30 (2013)
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