Why Were Many Analysts Worried About the Fall of Stable

question 67

Multiple Choice

Why were many analysts worried about the fall of stable authoritarian regimes during the "Arab Spring?"

• A) It was believed that access to the region's oil reserves would be curtailed.
• B) Analysts worried populist radical anti-western governments would take power.
• C) Scholars grew concerned that such events might threaten stable democratic regimes in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Europe.
• D) Many believed that this could set back economic development in the region by decades.

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