Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Why Dictatorial Regimes Are Brittle

"Dictatorships, as we are seeing in the Middle East today, and as we saw in Iran in 1979 and in the communist nations in 1989—not to mention France in 1789—have a way of imploding unexpectedly, the unexpectedness lying in the fact that no external event seems to have precipitated the collapse."

Why Dictatorial Regimes Are Brittle—Posner - The Becker-Posner Blog

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