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Author Archives: Samer Nammari
Shifting Tectonics: Non-democratic Regimes on the Brink of Collapse
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It has always been posited that authoritarian regimes in the Middle East (two of which have already collapsed) were invulnerable to change; a number of scholars (like Paul Brooker in his book Non-democratic Regimes, Cf. Brooker, Paul. Non-Democratic Regimes. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)) in the past had assumed that those authoritarian regimes had at their disposal certain measures that were unavailable to other non-democratic regimes present at the time and made them much more stable.
Was the Egyptian Revolt deliberately hatched/driven by a foreign agency? – By Samer Nammari
Some people claim that what we are saying today on the streets of Cairo is a plot designed to destabalize Egypt and the whole Middle East in order to create a [singlepic id=478 w=320 h=240 float=right] new order in the Arab world. However, if we look at revolutions across history we can detect a few elements that have much in common with the still-going Egyptian revolt. The most obvious example to be cited is the French Revolution. Bear in mind that revolutions are, in fact, a series of events and changes that occur across social, political and econmic levels over a span of time; what’s happening in Egypt is still a revolt against the government and hasn’t progressed
