The Muse of history Clio often creates scenarios, which no writers with the richest imagination can invent. The “Arab spring” is among the most enigmatic historical phenomena of the past centuries. However, it is clear to all that this event was of crucial nature for all mankind. A historian should answer five questions pertaining to the event, namely, what, where, when, how, and why? The main question is why?” Answer to it turns any historical work into an investigation, takes it beyond the limits of empirical description, and lends it analytical character. And so, question No 1 –“What are the reasons for the ‘Arab spring,’ which destabilized the regions of the Middle East and North Africa for such a long time and created a serious threat to international security on a global scale? A scientific reasoned answer to this question we can find in a new monograph by the well-known Russian scholar of the Orient, Professor Andrei Vavilov, DSc(History), entitled “Cataclysms of the ‘Arab Spring.’”
A.I. Vavilov; ‘Arab Spring’.