Aran Spring

The Arab Spring was an event which became known throughout the world. According to Jason Brownlee, Tarek Masoud and Andrew Reynolds (2013), the Arab Spring started at the end of 2010 in a Middle Eastern country identified as Tunisia (p.29). This shows that a Middle Eastern country had ejaculated a force of civil motivations of activism in the Arab Spring, and this played an important role for the oppressed Arab citizens to demand equality and human rights. Yakub Halabi (2014) claims that a majority of Arab nations have ‘authoritarian’ systems of government with a lack of a unified community (p.100-101). This shows that democracy is lacking in many Arab nations in the Middle East while the citizens of those countries are vulnerable to conflict because of the social circumstances surrounding Arab nations. In addition, Brownlee, Masoud and Reynolds (2013) elaborates on the idea that subsequent to Tunisia’s Arab Spring, Egypt, Libya and Yemen had participated in the Arab Spring, and this caused the risk of civil, political and social unrest being extremely high in 2013 (p.29). This is relevant evidence that Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen are in a worse position than they were before the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring was portrayed as a stride for Middle Eastern states to become an equal democratic utopia. However, an unstable economy, foreign intervention and paid terrorists were some of the reasons of the Arab Spring being unsuccessful for inserting democracy into the channels of politics in several Middle Eastern countries.

An unstable economy in some Arab countries resulted in a failure to maintain order and democracy. Brownlee, Masoud and Reynolds (2013) claim that the lack of oil resources and currency wealth proved to be impediments i...

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...d some of the leaders of the Middle East has prevented Arab citizens in the Middle East from receiving democracy and human rights.

In conclusion, the expectations of democracy during the Arab Spring proved to be an unfulfilled scenario which resulted in many Arab citizens living in turmoil and faring desperate times. The Arab Spring was portrayed as a stride for Middle Eastern states to become an equal democratic utopia. However, an unstable economy, foreign intervention by the American government forces and for-profit corporations, and terrorists with extremist agendas were some of the causes of the Arab Spring which led to chaos. Therefore, the transition to democracy failed in many Arab countries during and after the Arab Spring because of political, social, religious, regional, international and corporate factors which are complicated enough to stir up unrest.