Reflections on the ‘Arab Spring’: introduction.

The author reflects on Borna Zguric's article entitled "Challenges for democracy in countries affected by the Arab Spring." The author says that Zguric considers the challenges being faced by the Islamist parties for achieving relevance and sustained legitimacy. However, the author says that Zguric details the challenge's scale encountered by the societies which are newly democratized for consolidating democracy in cultural and institutional terms.