While the onset of the Arab Spring was widely celebrated in the West, as we approach the second anniversary of these democratic uprisings, optimism about the future has significantly waned. A recent Pew Research Poll revealed that nearly 60 percent of Americans do not believe that recent changes in the Middle East will lead to lasting improvements for the people of the region and a majority of Americans (54 percent) believe that it is more important to have stability in the Arab World even if there is less democracy.
Read The Mosque and the State after the Arab Spring, a new Policy Brief written by Nader Hashemi and jointly published by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and the British Council.
Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and an Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.
The Policy Briefs are part of the Carnegie Corporation-supported “Our Shared Future” project which aims to improve the public conversation about Muslims and intercultural relations in the US and Europe.
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