Book Review: What’s Really Wrong with the Middle East?
Feb 3rd, 2010 | By Khalid Lum, International Affairs '12
In What’s Really Wrong with the Middle East, author Brian Whittaker has taken an unconventional and ambitious look into authoritarianism what is not so much the Middle East but the Arab world. The book asks: why is political order in so many Arab countries dysfunctional; why does political and religious violence spring from the region so frequently; and why has it been slow to democratize compared to others?