ARAB SPRING: PERUBAHAN REZIM DAN TEGANGAN HUBUNGAN AS – DUNIA ARAB REFLEKSI SOSIO-HISTORIS

Abstract

The revolutions in the Arab World such as Egypt, Tunisia, Marocco, Libya, Syria and Yemen have affected political landscapes in the Middle East countries. Revolutions in the MENA countries have broken up relations between the Arab World and the US. The revolutions also have paved the way for Islamic groups to put political pressures to take power . Moreover, the Arab Spring have the influence over changes in the United States foreign policy in Middle East. But, up to now, it is not clear that the revolution in the Middle East in 2011 is a great opportunity for the U.S. to increase its role in countries. It's not clear too, whether or not it also a new opportunity for the U.S. to establish strategic alliances in Arabic World. While Washington was surprised by the fall of the regimes of Egypt and Tunisia, for instance, there is uncertainty that the two countries would be the new alliances of the US in the near future. America has lost its loyalists such as former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Ben Ali, Tunis. But at the same time, the proximity of the the US-Gulf alliances is increasing, especially with Saudi Arabia,Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar . Washington for a while is still groping, if not frenzy, in rebuilding the present relationship with the Middle East, as long as the MENA countries are still in the era of transition. The U.S and the West are aware about that problem, and they understand that in the Middle East the political uncertainty is so apparently.