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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Stability</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>
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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Stability]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></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>

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		<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>Is US Stability at Risk?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/19/is-us-stability-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/19/is-us-stability-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The AP reported last week that some &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; leaders and Oklahoma legislators are discussing forming a militia to defend against encroachment by the federal government.
There are other indicators that extremism is finding new purchase.
In February, a man used his light plane to launch a terrorist suicide attack on a government office in Austin, Texas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locking In World&#8217;s Agricultural Land</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/23/locking-in-worlds-agricultural-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/23/locking-in-worlds-agricultural-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The WaPo reported today on a trend that could have impacts from African stability to the global food supply: companies and governments from developing nations are leasing or buying large swaths of agricultural land, especially in Africa, but also in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
The WaPo article focuses on Ethiopia, which uses only about a [...]]]></description>
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