This piece by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, laying down “a framework for shaping the democratic revolution” in the Middle East is worth reading and pondering about. So is this piece by Zalmay Khalilzad, describing the different challenges America confronts in the region and arguing for strategies on transitions, without which, he says, countries in the region risk increased instability.
I thought it interesting that both mentioned constitutional monarchy as a transitory solution to rapid and emerging democratic demands in these countries long ruled by monarchs and autocrats. It limits the powers of kings even as it prepares a people not yet habituated in the ways of self-rule to begin to understand and exercise the duties and obligations of a free people.
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