The Arab League Summit: a Stress Test or a Chance for an Agreement?

... by figures with an ideological bias toward Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other states, whose domestic and foreign polices rest on conservative Islamic traditions. These actions have come across in a quite positive light. By opposing autocratic regimes, the Arab League found it easy to remain on the right side of history, also enjoying support from the West which regarded the Arab Spring’s initial stage as uprisings of the masses against dictators. However, as the situation in the Arab Spring countries quickly worsened and more formidable political challenges surfaced, the LAS ran into a series of important difficulties ...