Future of “nation state” in the shadow of Arabic Revolutions

Abstract

This paper tries to shed light on the crisis of “nation state” in Arabic spring countries. The Arabic revolution come as a result of failure of nation state that was established after independence, the vital problem that should be explained is whether the revolutionary power has a project and any approach to build a new “nation state” or it does not have an idea about it.

It seem that the political powers- both Islamism and nationalism powers- that have toppled numbers of political regimes miss a specific ideology for building a new “nation state”, and  without any attempt to overcome that problem the result of the revolutionary change was limited on regimes change rather than total change or create a new “nation state”.

The state as institutions still suffers from numbers of crisis, because of the absence any idea or project to rebuild a new “nation state”, however democratic transition do not have magical stick that could build new democratic nation state. The political systems that are formed after the revolution still not capable to contain both the elites of previous regimes that lost its privilege or to contain continued political turmoil, exception Tunisia which could be a good model for success.

In sum, after five years of starting Arabic spring we could find three models of states, first states going toward democracy, and second, states going toward reproduce a “crisis state”, and the last model is a failure state that going towered disintegration and falling.