Aslı Bâli is a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law, founding faculty director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, and former director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is coeditor of two volumes on institutional design and comparative constitutional law from Cambridge University Press.
The Abraham Accords have cemented a counterrevolutionary bloc in the Middle East of Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. US intervention in the region is assuming a different form, but Washington’s support for authoritarian regimes is as brazen as ever.