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Why Did The Arab Uprising Occur In The Middle East

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In the Middle East due to the Arab uprising it has caused for the government to have limited control of the resources and policies being made. Since, in most of the countries still having uprising leaders and government officials are being overthrown or taking the blame and leaving. This causes the government to be halted until the positions can be placed and they can start all over from scratch to please the people for a short time frame. While the Middle East earns most of its money from the abundance of oil it is still not a rich nation like one would expect. They are instead suffering from what is called a “resource curse” they have an abundance of oil but the system put in place are not allowing for a trickledown effect. Instead in the …show more content…

Since most of the leaders fulfill the promises. However, after the people start to fill the effects of the change leaders stop and the economy goes down causing people to lose jobs and the market to be controlled even more by foreign companies. This leads to many of the homegrown businesses to be unable to make it and to close down since they are unable to complete in the market competitively. When the people are always feeling betrayed by the government who is supposed to protect them and causing them to up rise how can the Middle East ever be expected to change and move forward and have a functioning nation. That will lift the people up and create a livable environment to allow for the country to grow and maybe having a chance at fighting terror organizations. If the government stops chooses either the Sunni side or the Shia side the two will have one less reason to fight against each other for control. Then Shia and Sunni can stop fighting over getting their corrupt government on their …show more content…

This will allow for the two to grow and maybe be able to work on their differences since the corrupt government has allowed for the tension between the Shia and Sunni to grown besides them fighting over their beliefs. The ability to stop Shia and Sunni from fighting, causing an uprising over and over again. The Arab identity can begin to strengthen bringing the two sides together without forcing one to change their beliefs but to end their conflict with the government. Thus strengthen many of the nations in the Middle East having conflicts between the fractions for this reason. Getting rid of the conflicts will allow for the nation to strengthen as a whole and more nations to fight back against terror organizations. To prevent the terror organization trying to take their country or are already in trying to overthrow the government from the inside. Overall the Arab identity is not the problem the fractions in the Middle East know what they have in common and though they are different are part of this identity and are part of the Middle East and it is their home land (Cammett, Melani, and Diwan,

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