Thursday, June 28, 2012

"Just Balance" Between Freedom and Dictators!


Benedetta Berti, Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University, reflects on the problems that come with supporting friendly dictators. Berti suggests finding the "just balance" between providing a blank check to authoritarian regimes and breaking old and advantageous alliances (i.e., a balance not fully supporting freedom). Excerpt below from his article: