ii. bullies: Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine
iii. monarchies: Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
iv. quasi-democracies: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey
b. how they got there, after revolutions or military coups in some cases, and the consequences for their respectively business communities.
c. Comparing political capacities: taxation, accountability, and transparency
d. Contract-intensive Money (CIM) as an indicator of the adequacy of institutions to protect property rights and guarantee contracts and the rule of law? (H&S, p. 79)
e. Transparency: free flows of information for potential foreign or even local investors?
III. Monarchies and Conditional Democracies