The Role of Oil in the MENA Crisis

摘要

The political upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa started in Tunisia early this year and led to the swift toppling of its government.The turmoil rapidly spread into other Arab countries - Egypt, Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Morocco and Libya -where it manifested its greatest intensity.In Jordan, King Abdullah dissolved the government, but Egypt's demonstrations caught the attention of the world and ultimately unseated the country's lifetime president, Hosni Mubarak, who headed a despotic regime for thirty long years.