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By comparison with the regimes and the Islamist movements, the secular opposition parties are at a particular disadvantage.
ECONOMIST: Not just coercion, sham democracy too
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But now a new sort of geopolitical confrontation stalks the region, one that sets America against Iran, and the Islamist movements Iran supports against the Arab regimes in America's camp.
ECONOMIST: The Arabs and Israel
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Imperial overstretch financing guerrilla movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America and supporting cash-strapped and unloved regimes from Angola to Afghanistan increased the strain.
ECONOMIST: Welcome to the new world disorder