Popular anger over Arab impotence has certainly left regimes such as Egypt's and Saudi Arabia's, as well as the rump Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, looking increasingly isolated in the region.
Stability analysis as in Segel and Jackson only refers to the system very close to the homogeneous steady state: once we leave that regime (and competition occurs well into the nonlinear regime), stability analysis cannot predict how many peaks will survive to the polarized steady state.
"If you leave, the regime will have the excuse to bomb us more," he said he told other residents.
The first is the assumption that Assad actually wants to defeat IS, when in truth the disappearance of the jihadists from Syria would leave his regime dangerously exposed.
While some leaned towards supporting an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, Gingrich expressed scepticism because an attack would still leave the regime in place.
This government by contrast has set great store by transparency, and Osborne has also promised to run a more collegiate Treasury relationship with departments, as opposed to the take it or leave it regime run by Gordon Brown.
Politicians' use of the test scores for political gain has become rampant in the No Child Left Behind regime.
I think the past Bush administration dealt with it very firmly and left a regime in place that isolated Saddam".
For political-military planners, precision strikes on a few facilities have drawbacks beyond leaving the regime intact.
Earlier attempts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear programme failed because they left the regime free to continue its threatening behaviour whenever it felt like it, which was often.
