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Ten years ago, a wave of uprisings ripped across the Arabic-speaking world. The 2011 uprisings were a culmination of a long crisis of legitimacy. After 2011, the surviving regimes had

When you see the outsize influence of the UAE upon regional affairs remember the following. The UAE is has a population of around 10 million out of whom 9 million

Time for another stream-of-consciousness thread that feels right now as random thoughts but I think will coalesce into something as I go on "If your cause is moral, and your

The thinkers of the Enlightenment didn't know that they were working in an age that later generations would call "the Enlightenment". Certain models that seemed to have worked forever suddenly

There's a direct relationship between mediocrity and authoritarianism. Authoritarians value loyalty over competence, and so attract those who know they can never accomplish success based on their competence, but have

You can't really define what "corruption" is under a dictatorship. It's like trying to define "officer misconduct" in a torture prison. There is no rule of law, and even if

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