These can range from cutoffs of financial flows to ruling elites, to the establishment of rump trade corridors, to multinational trustee arrangements--say, for public health--that can ameliorate the worst suffering while not being rejected by the incumbent rulers as a threat to their power.

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Cold War logic on either side of its divide lent support to ruling elites across the Muslim world as they placed their survival in power ahead of the need to work out some institutional arrangement allowing for participation of the widest segment of the population in meeting the requirements of democracy and socioeconomic progress.

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It is the world written about by Chris Hayes in Twilight of the Elites, where children are prepped to be members of the meritocracy, that benign sounding name for the ruling classes, which has gone from instrument of democratization to self-perpetuating mechanism within a generation.

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