POLI 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Gulf Cooperation Council, Hosni Mubarak
15 May 2016
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We"re doing this overview now cause it helps to frame interesting research questions that were generated by these political changes in middle east in. Although the middle east tends to be thought of as unstable , between. 1970-2010 it was one of the most stable regions in the developing world. With the notable exception of the iranian revolution (1979) and us intervention in iraq (2003), few regime changes. Moreover, this stability was highly authoritarian in character and remarkable resistant to the so-called third wave of democratization in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. world saw a significant decrease in authoritarian states and increase in democratic states. But these weren"t seen in the middle east. A belt of not free authoritarian regimes still existed on the map. Proportion of not free countries in the middle east were between 78% and 88%. Middle east really stood up and authoritarian regimes stayed.
