“Deep political-economic transformations created the context for the events of this month …” What is their meaning for the future of the Iranian regime? “Roiled from within and menaced from without, what are its chances of survival?”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51