The World Community and the Arab Spring provides in-depth reflections and insightful analysis on how major states, regional actors, and intergovernmental organizations responded to the so-called Arab Spring. It attempts not only to offer a better understanding of how international society dealt with such unprecedented, revolutionary waves in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, but also to evaluate these responses in the light of different global and regional foreign policies. That said, the underlying similarities and differences between the foreign policies of the actors can offer some useful insights that may offer general insights to predict future responses by the global community to similar situations.

This book establishes the congruity between international society and the Arab revolts within the analytical framework of the English School of International Relations theory. The general conviction among scholars of the English School is that international politics is a realm dominated by the...

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