到目前为止，发生在街头和投票站点的民众反抗未能建立起一套能解决政治、社会和经济问题的可靠的替代管理框架，现在的西方和中东社会正在被这些问题所吞没。
Popular revolts – in the streets and at the ballot box – have so far failed to deliver an alternative governing framework that offers credible solutions to the political, social, and economic problems that have engulfed Western and Middle Eastern societies.