“Revolutions are caused by a combination of high food prices, a young population, a rising middle class, a polarizing ideology, a corrupt old regime, and a weakening world order. In the Middle East, all these conditions are met – and of course the Islamist revolution is already underway, albeit under the misleading label of an ‘Arab Spring’. What one should worry about is the war that almost always follows a revolution of such magnitude.”
– Ferguson, Niall, The Decline of the West, Berlin 2013, p. 163.
