Implication of Leadership Change in the Middle East (in Arabic)

41 Pages Posted: 24 Mar 2011

Date Written: January 1, 2005

Abstract

The politics of the Middle East may be more dependent on the ambitions and whims of individual leaders than in any other region of the world. Middle Eastern leaders are often unconstrained by domestic political institutions or popular sentiment: Their ambitions and preferences, as well as their weaknesses and foibles, can make the difference between war and peace, revolution and stability. Leadership change in the Middle East, however, is infrequent and seldom routinized. The region often seems frozen in time, with certain leaders – Muammar Qadhafi of Libya, Yasir Arafat in the Palestinian Authority, and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, among others – ruling for decades. As Glenn Robinson remarks, “If anything, the contemporary Arab world has been marked by too much political stability at the top, not too little.”

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Suggested Citation

Ghobadzadeh, Naser, Implication of Leadership Change in the Middle East (in Arabic) (January 1, 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1789289 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1789289

Naser Ghobadzadeh (Contact Author)

Institute for Social Justice ( email )

Level 20, Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier St
North Sidney, NSW 2060
Australia

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