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Author Archive: Howard Pack

Dangers of Rapid Political Change in the Middle East

by Howard Pack | February 9th, 2011 | 05:11 pm

World leaders are calling for Hosni Mubarak to either resign or to institute “political and economic” reform that will meet the demands of the demonstrators. Such calls show a large degree of ignorance about the needed economic reforms and the fact that increasing political participation may pose obstacles to reforms. While the maintenance of deeply [...]

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