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This is also why we are unlikely to see the return of military
regimes
in southern Europe or anywhere else; the suffering that they caused is too vivid in the collective memory.
Analyzing these events much later, historians constructed elaborate typologies to distinguish between fascist and merely authoritarian
regimes.
But much more important was what the fascist and authoritarian
regimes
shared – all were beneficiaries of a sweeping collapse of the legitimacy of democratic politics.
The special tax
regimes
and other policies they adopted may make some at the OECD cringe.
That pits it against Saudi Arabia and countries like the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan, whose rulers view such movements as an existential threat, with some, including the House of Saud, investing in propping up autocratic
regimes
like their own.
Anticipating that such groups will increasingly shape Arab politics, displacing strongman regimes, Qatar has set out to empower them.
In that case, one could imagine the replacement of representative democracy with political
regimes
that limit citizen control to the executive.
Violent revolutions are rarely followed by liberal
regimes.
The tense relationship between the incumbent Arab
regimes
and political Islam is not necessarily a zero-sum game.
So, while the Arab Spring has been a genuine popular uprising against decades of corrupt and oppressive authoritarian regimes, its rapid spread, which caught almost everyone by surprise, was due in part to the influence of Al Jazeera, which became the voice of the voiceless throughout the Middle East.
The falling
regimes
consistently maintained that Al Jazeera wasn’t neutral.
It is never possible to satisfy the demands of all protesters, and
regimes
should not try.
On the other, there is what Harvard’s Yascha Mounk calls, in his newly published book, “undemocratic liberalism”:
regimes
that protect individual rights and legal equality, but delegate public policymaking to unelected technocratic bodies like central banks and the European Commission.
The improvements do not stop there: the world is more literate; child labor has been dropping; we are living in one of the most peaceful times in history; and the majority of the world’s governments are democratic
regimes.
In contrast to previous episodes, Arab countries like Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia have been very restrained in their criticism of Israel, though perhaps less for moral reasons and more because they regard militant Islam as a graver threat than Israel to their own
regimes.
People continue to think in ways typical to authoritarian/totalitarian regimes, where blaming others is the standard escape for your own inadequacies, and where anyone who is even the slightest bit different may be an enemy.
In a nutshell, it has been much easier for the West to do business in the post-colonial Middle East with un-democratic regimes, which have found Western support and recognition useful in marginalizing local liberal and democratic forces, even as it paved the way for the rise of Islamist radicalization.
So it is far easier for authoritarian
regimes
like Egypt and Jordan (and in the future perhaps Syria), where there is no need for parliamentary agreement, to launch negotiations and sign peace agreements with Israel.
Likewise, in Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain, where various low-level contacts and Israeli representations exist, undemocratic
regimes
can define whatever relationship with Israel they choose.
The West has wasted decades, missing countless chances to establish
regimes
that could empower Arab liberal and democratic forces.
The status quo is excused by Arab
regimes
in the name of cultural specificity – the same pretext used by Western governments to justify their “value-free” policies toward these
regimes.
Add together all the trade-offs between the West and the Arab regimes, along with the Israeli and Islamist factor, and the conclusion at which one arrives is as inescapable as it is alarming: the West cannot afford democracy in the region.
The trend can be seen in traditionally autocratic
regimes.
Furthermore, roughly 60 nations are currently cooperating in the Proliferation Security Initiative to prevent dangerous weapons and materials from being transported to terrorists or outlaw
regimes.
After all, revolutions go far beyond popular uprisings and the overthrow of old
regimes.
In an ideal steady state, pension
regimes
would not redistribute income across cohorts born at different points in time.
Likewise, consider the number of authoritarian
regimes
that collapsed and democracies born in the last 40 years.
Similarly, it would be difficult – but not impossible – to reduce the incentives, created by almost all countries’ tax regimes, for corporate leverage.
Social Democracy Lives in Latin AmericaMONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY – Amongst the different leftist governments in Latin America, there are new and rather strident populist
regimes
(Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador), which seem to grab all the attention.
Some 14 countries, including Senegal, are involved in the implementation of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, which seeks to create greater transparency in taxation
regimes.
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