The Saudi Exception
Why It Matters
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Hamad Bin Salman - Is He a Dictatorship?
Hamad bin Salman has been rather shrewd when it comes to his domestic politics. He's built a kind of national security state that, you know, Saudi Arabia is obviously never a democracy. There's been a real increase in the kind of surveillance of Saudi society since MBS emerged. And so reform can't come from below. It has to come from MBS.
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