This article examines the question: why and how the wave of democratization in the Middle East has receded, giving way to the prioritization of security in the post‐Arab Spring by conducting analyses at three levels: societal, state, and international. By applying the main concepts and theories found in the literature on democratization and securitization and by analyzing the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Democracy Status Index, the Arab Barometers Survey, and the Arab Opinion Survey, the article concludes that: at the societal level, the tragic unfolding of events after the Arab Spring prohibits the public from pushing a reform agenda; at the state level, the post‐Arab political environment raises doubts among the ruling elite about how far political reforms should be extended; and at the international level, with the rise of new security threats, international pressure on Middle East countries to democratize has been restrained, giving way to security cooperation as the top priority.

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从民主化到证券化：阿拉伯后春天的中东政治秩序

本文探讨了一个问题：中东民主化浪潮为何以及如何消退，通过对社会，国家和国际三个层面的分析，放弃了后阿拉伯之春对安全的优先考虑。通过运用文献中有关民主化和证券化的主要概念和理论，并通过分析贝塔斯曼基金会的民主地位指数，阿拉伯晴雨表调查和阿拉伯意见调查，得出以下结论：阿拉伯之春后发生的事件禁止公众推动改革议程；在国家一级，后阿拉伯的政治环境使执政的精英们对政治改革应扩大的范围产生怀疑。在国际上，随着新的安全威胁的增加，