{"id":278,"date":"2025-10-02T03:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/de-vries-stephan\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:40:30","slug":"de-vries-stephan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/de-vries-stephan\/","title":{"rendered":"De Vries Stephan"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStephan de Vries<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"de Vries Stephan\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Stephan de Vries<\/b> is a researcher within the Knowledge Programme \u2018Civil Society in West Asia\u2019 at the University of Amsterdam and focuses mainly on Iranian politics.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/current-global-affairs\/middle-east-events-as-a-mirror-for-experts\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs2\/blogs\/current-global-affairs\/middle-east-events-as-a-mirror-for-experts\/73446-8-eng-gb\/middle-east-events-as-a-mirror-for-experts_column.jpg\" alt=\"Middle East events as a mirror for experts\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/current-global-affairs\/middle-east-events-as-a-mirror-for-experts\/\">Middle East events as a mirror for experts<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/aarts-paul\/\">Paul Aarts<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/de-vries-stephan\/\">Stephan de Vries<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t09 March 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tLet us start with a confession: in the last couple of months we both wrote articles and made statements claiming that most Arab regimes \u2013 including the Gulf monarchies \u2013 were still steadily in control for some time to come. 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