Lado, Ludovic <br/><br/>
The African Imagination of the West 

 -  2005.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The causes for the discontent fuelling the Arab revolutions are to be found in a western politics of divide and rule over the past century, argues Gérard Khoury. Will democratically elected Arab leaders make a break with the practices of their predecessors, or will new repressive regimes emerge sustained by western complicity?