'Reform, to be successful, had to take account of traditions of rule which had been there time out of mind. If you want to ride roughshod over them, you are very likely to come a cropper. Elie Kedourie , Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics, an authority on the Middle East, whose most recent book is The Crossman
Confessions and Other Essays in Politics, History and Religion, in conversation with Michael Charlton.
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