As the Arab world’s newly post-autocratic societies stumble towards economic opportunity and political reform, violence in both Libya and Syria is taking the gloss off the early successes of the Arab spring. But behind both these crises lies an even more serious long-term problem: the west’s unquestioning support for the region’s hydrocarbon dinosaur, Saudi Arabia.
就在阿拉伯世界剛剛擺脫獨(dú)裁的國家踉踉蹌蹌邁向經(jīng)濟(jì)機(jī)遇和政治改革之際,利比亞和敘利亞兩國的暴力事件正在抹去阿拉伯之春前期成果的榮光。在這兩個國家的危機(jī)背后,隱藏在一個更為嚴(yán)重的長期問題:西方對該地區(qū)石油巨頭沙特阿拉伯的無條件支持。
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