It has been 5 years since the start of the Tunisian uprising. What Happened to "the Arab Spring"? See also Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East and A Brief History of ISIS
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51