The Arab Spring was an event known throughout the world. According to Jason Brownlee, Tarek Masoud and Andrew Reynolds (2013), the Arab Spring began in late 2010 in a Middle Eastern country identified as Tunisia (p. 29). This shows that a Middle Eastern country expressed a force of civil activism motivations during the Arab Spring, and this played an important role in making oppressed Arab citizens demand equality and human rights. Yakub Halabi (2014) asserts that a majority of Arab countries have “authoritarian” systems of government without a unified community (p. 100-101). This shows that democracy is lacking in many Arab countries in the Middle East while the citizens of these countries are vulnerable to conflicts due to the social circumstances surrounding Arab countries. Additionally, Brownlee, Masoud, and Reynolds (2013) expand on the idea that following the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen had participated in the Arab Spring, resulting in extremely high risk civil, political and social unrest in the country. 2013 (p.29). This is relevant evidence that Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen are in a worse situation than before the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring was presented as a step forward for Middle Eastern states toward an equal democratic utopia. However, an unstable economy, foreign intervention and paid terrorists are some of the reasons why the Arab Spring failed to insert democracy into the political circuits of several Middle Eastern countries. An unstable economy in some Arab countries has led to a failure to maintain order. and democracy. Brownlee, Masoud, and Reynolds (2013) argue that lack of oil resources and monetary wealth proved to be obstacles middle of paper......and some of the Middle East leaders prevented Arab countries from citizens of the Middle East to benefit from democracy and human rights. In conclusion, expectations of democracy during the Arab Spring turned out to be an unrealized scenario that led many Arab citizens to live in turmoil and go through desperate times. The Arab Spring was presented as a step forward for Middle Eastern states toward an equal democratic utopia. However, an unstable economy, foreign intervention by U.S. government forces and for-profit corporations, and terrorists with extremist agendas are some of the causes of the Arab Spring that led to chaos. Consequently, the transition to democracy failed in many Arab countries during and after the Arab Spring due to political, social, religious, regional, international and corporate factors complicated enough to fuel unrest...