Abstract
The massive electoral success of Islamists in post-revolutionary Egypt and Tunisia has put the so-called liberal camp in front of a series of dilemmas: whether to support the democratic process at all, whether and how to unify a heavily inconsistent camp, whether and how to work with Islamists. Unclear liberal strategies even lead to the question whether a liberal camp exists in the first place.
After two revolutionary years, however, processes unfold in which those dilemmas lead to tentative strategies. The term "liberal" itself It changes its content, tactics, as well as the actors themselves.
The text defines concepts, then describes the failures and then breaks down the liberal strategy and tries to analyze the causes of failures and assess future development.