World A Decade After the Arab Spring, Autocrats Still Rule the Mideast February 14, 2021February 14, 2021BEN HUBBARD and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKComments Off on A Decade After the Arab Spring, Autocrats Still Rule the Mideast The popular uprisings of 2011 mostly failed, but they gave the region a taste for democracy that continues to whet an appetite for change.