Middle East Studies After 9/11: An Exit from Arab Autocracy

Issue Date July 2002
Volume 13
Issue 3
Page Numbers 116-122
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While many experts recommend postponing democratization pending the rise of a middle class, a directly political strategy may well be better.

About the Author

Vickie Langohr is assistant professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has published essays in the online version of the Middle East Report as well as in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and is currently working on a book about religious nationalist movements in the Middle East and South Asia.

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