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To: Elsewhere who wrote (132222)	5/8/2004 9:18:29 AM
From: broadstbull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

He's right

To: Elsewhere who wrote (132222)	5/8/2004 12:13:59 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Can anyone shed any light on what the Arab world's "notion of land property rights" really is ? I don't understand how [U.S. decision-makers] believed a liberal democracy could arise from Iraq. There are no clear property rights in Iraq. The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. Until that's sorted out, creating the political infrastructure, the civil society, is out of the question. Clearly defined property rights are an essential component of any capitalist democracy, and this is one of the many things that the USA got right. The whole question of ethnic conflicts can't really be separated from any "notions of property rights", not to mention the problems a dictatorship like Iraq had for the idea, but I don't know of a good analysis of how, culturally, the ideas of property differ in that region from ours.