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Authoritarian Regimes and
the Descent into the Abyss
Basim al-Zaiadee
It is not easy for the people of Bahrain, and Syria, among other move with the present times,
the Arab world and the Middle Arab and Muslim countries, in whilst some governments
East to see the countries in all of which citizens demanded implemented a ‘carrot and
which they live descend into access to their lost rights and stick’ policy of reward and
division and cruel sectarian dignity. Many citizens were punishment, diffusing the
conflict, yet this is the reality shocked by the immensity immediate threat of revolution
that imposes itself. of the tragedy they endured but by avoiding to address the
It has been years since the end after testing the hardness of more serious demands for
of the idealistic revolutions of regimes that were willing to political, social, and religious
the Arab Spring, which began apply a policy of scorched reform.
in Tunisia in 2011 and soon earth. Other governments The strangest and most
spread to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, adopted conciliatory policies to disheartening aspect of this
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