The World Community and the Arab Spring

This edited volume offers an understanding of how the international community, as a collection of significant actors including major states and intergovernmental institutions, has responded to the important political and social developmentof the Arab Spring. Contributors analyze the response by international organizations (UN, EU, NATO), big powers (US, Russia, China, UK), regional powers (Turkey, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia) and small powers (Kuwait, Qatar). The book thusmakes a sound contribution to the existing literature on the Arab Spring in form of foreign policy analysis and provides an overviewof the current shape and outlook of global politics.