So, Moammar Quaddafi is dead. If there is a positive side to Quaddafi’s legacy, it is as a reminder to political fundamentalists of various kinds that political science is necessary. Quaddafi’s own tomes on his neither-Washington-nor-Moscow “Green Revolution”, accompanied by bizarre Islamic-socialist slogans distributed throughout his regime, remind us negatively that a positive alternative is possible, that political science includes an “Axiom of Choice”; the thought associated with changes coming to the Arab world hardly could end with the views of the “Project for a New American Century”. Let’s hope for some real freedom and progress for these countries, and a novel new look at the world.

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