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Ruler of Abu Dhabi and UAE President since 2022. Architect of the Emirates' economic and military rise, he drove the Abraham Accords with Israel, post-oil technological diversification and controlled modernization.
Political axes
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan leans further toward autocracy than 82% of the 645 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan stands furthest from the rest.
On Immigration, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Model that combines a market economy and private property with a closed political regime, in which the state guarantees order, growth, and stability while restricting civil liberties and political competition.
Caesarist current that legitimises a charismatic leader by plebiscite above parties, combining personal authority, bureaucratic centralisation, military mobilisation and state-led modernising reforms.
Synthesis of the Asian Tigers: entrusts government to a merit-recruited technical elite insulated from the vote and guided by results rather than doctrine, combining free trade, open markets and low taxation with strict public order and state planning where it proves effective.
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CommunalismAnarchist24%
President of Peru (1990–2000), Fujimori defeated the Shining Path insurgency and curbed hyperinflation through neoliberal shock therapy, but shut down Congress in the 1992 self-coup and was convicted of crimes against humanity and corruption.
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A Persian Gulf monarchy ruled by the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty over a Shia majority, Bahrain combines a liberalized financial hub, a parliament with limited powers, repression of the opposition since 2011, and alignment with Saudi Arabia and the US.
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A Sunni caliphate with its capital in Baghdad, the Abbasids ruled from the Maghreb to Central Asia under a caliph with religious and political authority, with a Persian-style bureaucracy, long-distance trade, and the House of Wisdom in the Islamic Golden Age.
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