In recent years there has been a pattern of reform & repression, relaxation & reaction, thaw & freeze.
His argument is that promoting reform over repression bolsters those two goals in the long term.
AFTER swinging between reform and repression, President Bashar Assad has cracked down on anti-government protesters with renewed and desperate vigour.
Instead the European Union "called on the Egyptian authorities to meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people with political reform not repression".
Their statement (PDF) condemned violence "in the strongest terms", and told the Egyptian government "to meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people with political reform not repression".
For those groups role-playing the Tsar and Stolypin, it can provide an insight into decision-making at the top, and how power can be preserved through a combination of reform and repression to divide and rule.
Pent-up anger among peasants and industrial workers, and an impatient middle class, meant that reform and repression alike risked a social explosion.The leaders were grotesquely ill-suited to the problems they faced.
Arizona, like the nation, needs immigration reform, not repression.
Their dramatic nature...can motivate sweeping social reform and/or repression".
There is little reason to believe they will be addressed in any meaningful fashion in the near- or medium-term by governments that are themselves finding their footing and determining the right mix between reform and repression.
He said the government should respond with "reforms, not repression" and warned about instability across the Middle East.
