Titlebook: Inevitable Democracy in the Arab World; New Realities in an Wissam S. Yafi Book 2012 Wissam S. Yafi 2012 community.democracy.economy.Natio

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Myths and Misconceptions of Arab Democracyend of the event, I walked up to Mr. Friedman and suggested to him that Israel was an imperfect democracy and so was Lebanon, but both were democracies nonetheless. Paraphrasing his answer, “Surely, you don’t think a nation under ‘occupation’ (he meant Syrian military presence in Lebanon at the time) can be democratic.”

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Epilogueility of the Arab regimes to meet the changing needs of a growing population and draw a future based on constructive and inclusive ideology channeled through institutions that can withstand the test of time.

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Geopolitical Realitiesome may indeed point to the fact that Iraq has since been freed from the chains of Hussein’s despotic regime, others balk at the cost of the said freedom in lives, and they question the justification of a vio-lentiv imoosed democracy.

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Geoeconomic Realitiesears to have had is finding a balance between rulers and their regimes with that of the people’s economic potential. Unfortunately, most of the Arab region would not take his advice during the following eight centuries.

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Technological Realitiesegions in the world. Examples abound of the pervasiveness of technology in everyday Arab life. Nowhere has it been more salient than through the proliferation of mass communication through satellite TV, mobile technology, and the Internet.

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Change and Potential OutcomesSo far, the argument in the book has been first that change has become inevitable, and second that the incumbent autocratic regimes will not be able to counter these forces of change. In this chapter we will look at what kind of change could ensue. But first let’s see how change occurs.

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Book 2012Wissam S. Yafi argues that there are four dynamics leading to inevitable change in the Arab region: geopolitical, geoeconomic, geosocial, and technological. Yafi comes to the conclusion that no system will be able to support the dynamics in place except for democracy.