This article was also published on the American website al-monitor.com. Gilles Kepel is a political scientist, specialist in Islam and the Arab world, is a columnist for Al-Monitor and director of the Middle East Mediterranean Chair at the École normale supérieure.
The reintegration of the Assad regime by the Arab League on Sunday, May 7, is a game-changer in the Middle East. Undeniable success of Saudi diplomacy, but a deceptive gain for Russia, which during the last decade and with the support of Iran, has held Syria at arm's length in the face of Western hostility. This new symptom of the consolidation of the bloc of authoritarianism challenges the democratic roadmap promoted by the United States and the European Union in the Eurasian and African continents. It is also the final curtain drop on the dreams of the Arab Spring of 2011, after Kaïs Saied's Tunisia also took a hyper-presidential turn. In the Levant, Soleiman Frangié junior, supported by Damascus, is...
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