Fantasies and Realities in International Relations

Fear Rules In The Nations Where Politics Is A Blood Sport Played Out In Real Blood, Yorkshire Post, February 15, 2011. "Yet the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, should remind us of one simple truth. The leaders of these countries, like autocrats around the world, were afraid. The autocrats are not just afraid of Western military power, though that does scare them. Nor are they simply afraid of freedom, though they know that if it triumphs, they will have lost. Nor are they worried about losing elections, for the simple reason that they never hold an honest one. They are afraid of their own people."