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GOR GEVORGYAN
In fact, the concepts introduced in the 2000s by the US administration
with the aim of taking control over the Middle East region were mani-
fested in 2011 in the Arab world, within the context of the “Arab spring”
when the Islamists came forth to replace national dictatorships with the
intention of creating a theocratic political system. 35
The wave of massive protests that had started in the Arab world re-
sulted in a change of power in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, creat-
ed crisis in those countries, and in some cases a lasting war, particularly
in Yemen and Syria. The situation that was shaped in the Arab world al-
most entirely got compatible with the provisions of the aforementioned
concepts proposed by the US administration. Moreover, the USA began
to control and coordinate the developments underway in the Arab world
promoting not only the collapse of the traditional security system of the
Middle East and the formation of the chaotic situation, but also the “So-
matization” of the Arab countries, in particular, the establishment of the
Islamic State.
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Nikolay Hovhannisyan, Gor Gevorgyan, The Arab Spring: The Pan-Arab Upheavals to-
wards the Arab Society modernization (Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libia), (Yerevan, 2017).
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