AUTUMN OF THE AUTOCRATS?THE DETERMINATION OF THE ARAB REVOLUTIONSBy ESAM AL-AMIN June 3, 2011After the relatively swift triumphs of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions in deposing their dictators earlier this year, other Arab dictators drew a different set of lessons than their populations did.Fed up with decades of repression, corruption, and the break down of state institutions, as well as the complete loss of faith in any meaningful political or social reforms in their societies, people across the Arab world this spring have waged simultaneous...
Saturday, 4 June 2011
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