ABSTRACT

H uman rights abuse is widespread in the Middle East, a product of the region's combination of wars, arbitrary systems of power and

In some senses, then, this map encapsulates the consequences of the underlying problems of the region. Were it possible in the future to draw a comparable map for the region and find a significant decline in human rights abuse, that would be prima facie evidence that several states had begun to resolve the key development problems. To some degree, the map understates the problem. The way the map works is that it shows

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