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DISCOURSE OF CHANGE

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Academic, Democratization Policy, Voices of Democracy

By Nir Boms (Lecture notes given in Melbourne, Australia) The main domestic objective of most Middle Eastern governments is to maintain the status quo regarding the balance between citizen freedoms and oppression. Opposition movements can be roughly divided into two main groups: Islamist opposition, which think the governments are too secular, and the democratic or [...]

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