kamrava, for a fascinating presentation. i'm a second year student for arab studies and i was wondering i have not had the pleasure of visiting qatar yet. i hope to soon one day. i was wondering if you were to advise another state on political reforms what type of advice do you think the katari system can give them. >> what kind of advice the qatari system would give to anotherld system on political reform? >> for, you know, seems to be very effective, i was wondering whether this is something thatqa could be reproduced elsewhere? >> i don't think qatar is in any position to advise on political reform. it is ultimately a non-democratic political system. it happens to be a remarkably stable non-democracy but by no means if you mean reformed, a democratic political system. it is not a reformed political system. and that actually brings up a more interesting question as this is fainting on me, this microphone. that brings up interesting question, the modus operandi of decision making. why does qatar make some of its decisions t

[applause] >> before you adjourn, if you don't mind, i would like to say that we have professor kamrava for two more days here. first he'll be appearing at the carnegie endowment tomorrow at 1 p.m. to give a talk and then back here at the ccas for a conference on religious and secular trends in africa, and he will also be giving a paper on qatar's involvement with some of the religious developments in the region. so, please, join us again tomorrow and the day after. but for now, please join us outside for some snacks, and feel free to continue the conversation with professor kamrava. thank you again very much. thank everyone for being here. [applause] >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> troy davis was convicted of killing a police officer in 1989. he maintained his innocence until his execution in twch. next -- 2011. next on booktv, jen marlowe, two of troy davis' sisters and other participants talk about troy davis' trial and the global efforts to keep him from being put to death. his supporters included former president jimmy carter, pope bene

mehran kamrava will field is old on questions thank you. >> we have a microphone? [inaudible conversations] >> sure. >> hello, i would like to ask you. you have talked about the social cohesion and what we did to john the business community, for example. i'm wondering if you have any thoughts on how the regime deal is and how they deal with domestic dissent and thinking, for example, the individual who is serving a 15 year jail time and i think that it has chosen to uphold that sentence. so do you have any thoughts on what is going on there? >> you know, you mentioned domestic dissent. and qatar is remarkable for its lack of domestic dissent compared to other regional states and it doesn't mean that there are not individuals or chatter in the social media particularly. and most particularly, twitter against erosion of culture or in some of these developments. by and large, you do not have dissent in the country. i will tell you why there is an absence of this defense. first and foremost, the average per capita gross domestic product is around $354,000 per year. and

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. >> mehran kamrava talks about the outside influence of qatar in the world. he argues unlike other regional powerhouses, qatar is been able to achieve its global standingik through al-jazeera, its supportr of democracy movement in thebeen middle east, and through the ab hosting of majlor world events t like the world cup.d this is about one hour and 15 minutes. >> thank you all very much. let me start by thanking the thl wonderful team for tonight's event. i'm most grateful and honored tm be here. thank you all.ight's i was motivated to study qatar. i've been in qatar since 2007 at the georgetown campus in doha.e 20 one of the first things that struck me about the country was one of it's amazing development. and its relative success. and so what motivated me to a write this book was the simple question of whether or not qatar is for real.k i t i don't know those of you, how many of you are familiar withott qatar, but in many ways this is a country that consistently punches above its weight, to use an overused metaphor.nsist and it's a small state which tries

. >> mehran kamrava talks about the outsized influence of qatar in the world. he argues unlike other regional powerhouses qatar has been able to achieve its global scanning through al-jazeera, its supportu democracy movement in the middln east, and through the hosting of major world events like the world cup.o this is about an hour and 15

. >> mehran kamrava talks about the outsized influence of qatar in the world. he argues unlike other regional powerhouses qatar has been able to achieve its global scanning through al-jazeera, its supportu democracy movement in the middln east, and through the hosting of major world events like the world cup.o this is about an hour and 15