Fuerzas profundas y nuevos conflictos en la post Primavera árabe

Abstract

The Arab Spring has been a transnational process that affected the Arab countries, scattered throughout the Middle East and the North Africa region (MENA). Despite the hopes that were encrypted with the awakening of societies, the uncertainties that surrounded this process were crystallized in the presence of deep forces that have been operating in the region.
In this sense, this article seeks to analyze in the context of the MENA the configuration of two profound forces in the post–Arab Spring, as well as to identify the actors involved in their actions and interests. They are the return of authoritarianism and the identification of all political Islam as an enemy.
Although these forces are interrelated, for methodological purposes they are analyzed separately, according to how they developed along the decade and how they manifested themselves at different times in the regional context of MENA. This allows a better understanding of the open nature of the conflicts that arose in Libya, Yemen and Syria, giving the region an even more convulsive and unstable character.