Jan Fingerland
Jan Fingerland is a commentator for Český rozhlas 6 (Czech Radio 6).
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By Jan Fingerland
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Arab Spring
What the revolutions mean for us
30 May 20111Mladá Fronta DNES Prague -
10 February 20113Lidové noviny Prague
A few months into the Arab revolutions, what lessons for Europe? For Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, professor at the London University, it should not succumb to the myth of a conflict between Islam and the West and engage in a more ambitious, independent diplomacy. 
The parallel between the popular unrest in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 is an uneasy one. How can the foundations for democracy in the Arab world be compared with those of Eastern Europe?