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King of Jordan since 1999, Abdullah II concentrates power over government, army and foreign policy, keeps peace with Israel and the Western alliance and pushes liberal economic reforms, while restricting the opposition and banning the Muslim Brotherhood in 2025.
Political axes
Abdullah II of Jordan leans further toward autocracy than 71% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Representation is where Abdullah II of Jordan stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, Abdullah II of Jordan sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
The closest among the 276 ideologies
Current reconciling Islam with electoral democracy through conservative religious parties that run in elections and support a market economy and Muslim values in public life, like Turkey's early AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda.
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.
Pragmatic branch that prioritizes fiscal adjustment, economic stability, and governability through broad coalitions, accepting market reforms and political concessions in the name of short- and medium-term results.
The most distant ideology
CommunalismAnarchist25%
Foreign minister from 1902 to 1912, the Baron of Rio Branco settled Brazil's borders through arbitration and negotiation, as in Acre and Misiones, drew the country closer to the United States and made law and diplomacy the basis of foreign policy.
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Under President Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria is in a transition begun after Assad’s fall, with a 2025 provisional constitution, reconstruction, and challenges of unity, security, and minority rights.
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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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