Burnley followed West Brom's model in the summer, refusing to spend above their means, cushioning the financial blow of relegation.

BBC: Burnley want manager Brian Laws to stay at Turf Moor

The model we in the West grew up with - and our great-grandfather's parents grew up with too - turns out not to be immutable.

BBC: Will the rise of the rest mean the decline of the US?

Although the Arab world's revolutionaries in general, and the Islamists in particular, are unlikely to hail the West as a model, they seem to be moving towards open political and economic systems.

ECONOMIST: The decline of Western power in the Arab world is no bad thing