"The region's been crowded out by other global crises, but there's also a sense of Western hopelessness after so many years of crisis," said Julien Barnes-Dacey, the director of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations.Īfter more than a decade of bloodshed and turmoil sparked by Arab Spring uprisings and an Islamic State group onslaught, most of the region's Arab countries have settled into a military stalemate or frozen conflict, accompanied by worsening economies, rising poverty rates and heavier repression.
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