A nation must think before it acts.
From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East, by Sean L. Yom. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
“The policy recommendations resulting from Yom’s analysis are important. Most notably, the findings challenge the realist notion that countries should give extensive support to steadfast authoritarian allies in order to help keep them in power in the face of rising domestic threats.”