In her book, Freedom’s Unsteady March, Tamara Cofman Wittes argues that democratic reform in the Arab world is neither a luxury nor a pipe dream, but a necessity, an essential component of any strategy to achieve long-term American goals in that critical region:
“A proper understanding of America’s role and its limits is necessary to transform a comfortable and only-when-convenient idealism into a sustainable and effective policy. A hard-headed framework for making unavoidable choices about how and when to press for democratic change is necessary to prevent the freedom strategy from being abandoned as impractical when such choices emerge. Think of this book as a realist’s argument for democracy promotion in the Middle East and a guidebook for making the choices that a realistic strategy demands.” From Chapter One
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