The Arab revolutions and their impact on the equation of regional transformations in the Middle East

Abstract

The topic of the Arab revolutions is one of the topics that is of great importance at the regional and international levels. Therefore, international research institutions and political and strategic decision-making centers have developed new frameworks and concepts in the field of international politics, in light of the developments witnessed by the Arab region, which necessitated addressing a set of theoretical concepts closely related to the changes taking place in the Arab region, which required research, scrutiny, and discussion of these concepts and theoretical approaches, through careful monitoring of the situation of the Arab countries in which the Arab revolutions occurred, which shows us that the Arab revolutions in these countries primarily targeted the collapse of existing political systems and the rebuilding of other systems, and this is confirmed by the slogans that crystallized under the title ((The people want to overthrow the regime)), as the goal is to bring about revolutionary change in the political systems, especially since these Arab revolutions were characterized by many common features, the first of which is: the peacefulness of the popular movement in contrast to the bloodiness and violence of the regimes and ruling elites, and the second is the fragility of the ruling regimes, which turned out to be only surviving, due to the protection of the security services in the face of the Arab popular protest movement. In addition, among the common features of the revolutionary movement are: The current situation in the Arab region has dropped the philosophy of stability and maintaining the status quo in favor of the philosophy of change and the role of peoples and public opinion, while moving it from the mentality of weakness and the (final) state to the mentality of action and civilizational change.