I appreciate your analysis on this. Does this signify an actual softening overall that can continue to be eroded to more secular values? or just a change in the labels applied?
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Fortunately, one aspect of the reforms is an unleashing of internal market forces, which will (hopefully) lead to a boom among the lower/middle classes that will in turn decentralize power and erode authoritarianism. But it will be a slow, gradual process.
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Pretty much like China is.
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Boosting tourism a secondary motivation, increasing employment rates and female economic participation is more fundamental.
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A Saudi Arabia that remains authoritarian (like most of ME) unproblematic for ROW if it ceases to export Wahhabism.
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