A new-look Middle East: threat or opportunity?
There’s a long way to go before we know what will emerge from the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. But what seems reasonable to assume is that it will different from the established order of top-down command, in many cases fuelled by oil money. How different things will be, who knows? Naturally it is unwise to rule out the possibility of the emergence of a more autocratic style of Government filling the power vacuums that are now…