Like the “Color Revolutions” and their roots in the post Soviet Union space, “the Jasmine Revolutions” are the products of a very specific socio-political environment
All that is real is rational explained Hegel in the years following the French revolution, and he confidently added that whatever is rational is real. One can obviously discuss the exact role of reason in human affairs but there is certainly some degree of rationality in historical events.
[Reprinted with permission from The China Europe International Business School.]