“…1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 CNTS Index 5 Year Moving Average Of course, it appears important to consider the sociopolitical destabilization of the 2010s in Britain and USA in the global context. As has been shown earlier (see, e.g., Ogien and Borisenkova 2014;Anufriev and Zaytsev 2016;Korotayev, Shishkina, and Issaev 2016;Sadovaya 2016;Akaev et al 2017), the Arab Spring acted as a trigger for a global wave of socio-political destabilization, which significantly exceeded the scale of the Arab Spring itself and affected absolutely all the World System zones. After the beginning of the Arab Spring, explosive global growth was observed for the overwhelming majority of indicators of socio-political destabilization, such as for antigovernment demonstrations, riots, or general strikes (see .…”