Combine this with a tottering authoritarian regime, and something like the pre 1914 German scenario looks realistic.

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

The military s high and positive profile seems to suggest that it is the only institution left in a tottering state that seems able to stabilize a delicate situation.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

The small, emirates of the Gulf Cooperation Council are with the exception of now tottering Dubai flourishing states that have joined the global economy through political and economic reform.

In a stunning article on aid to Pakistan during the Bush administration, Craig Cohen and Derek Chollet demonstrated the disastrous nature of this militarized approach even before the tottering Musharraf regime s latest crackdown.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s corruption tainted government tottering on the brink of collapse, there has been no official explanation of how India was caught napping in a militarily critical area where, in the recent past, China had made repeated attempts to encroach on Indian land.

In either scenario, Morsi has little room to maneuver in a country that, for the time being, is in political limbo with neither a constitution nor a parliament and whose people want tangible results in terms of good governance, institutional consolidation, and improvements to a tottering economy.