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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<title>A Note on Saudi Arabia and Bahrain</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/17/a-note-on-saudi-arabia-and-bahrain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/17/a-note-on-saudi-arabia-and-bahrain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are illustrating that the unrest spreading across the Middle East will not happen the same way in any two places, nor are all authoritarian countries equally susceptible.
Writing in the Washington Post, Scott Wilson offers a hint at why Saudi Arabia has remained largely quiet:
The aging monarchy of Saudi Arabia, home to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East: Some Stability-Related Data</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/02/middle-east-some-stability-related-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/02/02/middle-east-some-stability-related-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some patterns are emerging from the Middle East unrest that began in Tunisia.
This chart combines three factors that seem relevant:

Purchasing-power income (from CIA World Factbook)
Levels of economic freedom (from Heritage Foundation)
Levels of civil liberties (from Freedom House)


Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, and Yemen are highly similar when plotted against these variables.

They all have a &#8220;5&#8243; level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mideast Turmoil: A Forecast Compilation</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/30/mideast-turmoil-a-forecast-compilation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/30/mideast-turmoil-a-forecast-compilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forecasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a roundup of some of the fast-accumulating forecasts for Egypt and the Middle East, particularly those taking a longer view (including some of my own).
General

Threats to US interests &#8212; &#8220;Were demonstrations to spread in a big way to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, a catastrophe could be looming. A more enlightened, pro-American regime than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dyschronicity: centuries apart</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/23/dyschronicity-centuries-apart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/23/dyschronicity-centuries-apart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dyschronicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
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		<title>Wargaming Iraq&#8217;s future</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/28/wargaming-iraqs-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/28/wargaming-iraqs-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reported last week reported on wargames of Iraq&#8217;s future conducted for the American military.
The games suggested three outcomes:
Majority Shiites would drive Sunnis out of ethnically mixed areas west to Anbar province. Southern Iraq would erupt in civil war between Shiite groups. And the Kurdish north would solidify its borders and invite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s evolving role</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/22/saudi-arabias-evolving-role/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/22/saudi-arabias-evolving-role/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the July Atlantic, 39 American foreign policy experts were polled about Saudi Arabia&#8217;s roll.
Q &#8212; &#8220;What will Saudi Arabia&#8217;s growing role as a regional leader mean for the Middle East?&#8221;

55% &#8220;Very little, the Sunni Arab states will prove ineffective as counterweights to Iran&#8221;
23% &#8220;The containment of Iranian influence throughout the Middle East&#8221;
16% &#8220;Increased sectarian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle East remapped</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/16/the-middle-east-remapped/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/16/the-middle-east-remapped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/16/the-middle-east-remapped/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Peters recently offered a map of how the Middle East might look if borders were redrawn to better reflect sectarian and ethnic divides.  (Click on &#8220;Next&#8221; under the map, then click on the map to enlarge.)
Among the changes that would unfold in this scenario:

Kurdistan becomes a large, independent state, at the expense of Turkey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New global e-readiness rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/27/new-global-e-readiness-rankings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Competitiveness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist Intelligence Unit released its 2006 e-readiness rankings yesterday. The index is a measure of a country&#8217;s readiness for e-business, judged by Internet access, broadband penetration, innovation, information security, and other factors. More telling than the ranking is the country&#8217;s distance from a score of 10.
The ratings are a good indicator of general abilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chinese and the Saudis</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/23/the-chinese-and-the-saudis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/04/23/the-chinese-and-the-saudis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT reports on the growing relationship between China and Saudi Arabia.
This relationship is one aspect of a transformative trend: the growing role of China in the world as an alternative to established economic and political powers.
Some salient points from the article:

&#8220;&#8216;Saudi leaders are moving from benign neglect of China to considering it as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamic intensification in Saudi Arabia?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/03/27/islamic-intensification-in-saudi-arabia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/03/27/islamic-intensification-in-saudi-arabia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports on popular Islamic activism in Saudi Arabia.
Spurred in part by the Danish cartoon controversy, people are joining grass-roots groups, signing petitions, promoting boycotts, and raising money for pro-Islamic ads to be shown in Europe.
An activist argues that this could reduce support for violence and terrorist groups such as al Qaeda, instead [...]]]></description>
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