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.