The Middle East will continue in its struggle to create regimes, democratic or not, that avoid tyranny on one hand and anarchy on the other. This will become more rather than less difficult as populations in the Middle East increase in absolute terms, even as the underground water table continues to gradually diminish. This losing battle could lead to environmental hard regimes, Hobbesian in nature, as exist in Egypt, whose autocratic and paranoid style is ultimately the result of it having no answers to the question of people versus natural resources, aggravated by climate change. Pakistan
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