Middle East regimes will survive lasting instability
The region's regimes have proven remarkably resilient as challenges grow to their monopoly on power
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- Dysfunctional regimes
- Robust regimes
- Regime resilience factors
- The deep state
- Weakened opposition
- Patronage
- International balance of power
- Regime vulnerability factors
- Social and economic pressures
- Corruption
- Ideological battles
- US non-intervention
- Towards authoritarianism or democracy?
- Reinforced authoritarianism
- Partial democracies
- Failed states
- Outlook
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