One of the main reasons that the Three Gorges dam was built was to prevent flooding further downstream. The need for a dam was highlighted in 1954 when people were killed as a result of flooding of the Yangtze River.
Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world in 2011. The movement originated in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly took hold in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
introduction the obama administration has rightly insisted that each country involved in the arab spring has its own dynamic and that in terms of us policy there is no cookie cutter approach still there is a need for a comprehensive look at how the arab spring affects long standing us interests in the middle eastey judgments the arab spring has shown the limits of american power in the middle east no longer does the us have the prestige and resources to dominate middle east affairs to the degree it has since the british withdrew from east of suez in 1971