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Russia-Middle East: Comparing the Fall of the Wall and the Arab Spring

Written byVilhelm Konnander

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Posted 14 July 2011 18:43 GMT

Dr. Sean's Diary compares the difficulties of area studies in handling the fall of the commnist bloc in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s with that of the current Arab spring, against the backdrop of a recent Foreign Policy article.

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Written byVilhelm Konnander

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