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Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

President of the United Arab Emirates, 2022 to present

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Effectively ran the UAE for years before becoming president in 2022, steering the country toward technology, finance and an assertive foreign policy while tightly limiting dissent.

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: centered on economy and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority, strongly tech-optimist on technology and strongly interventionist on interventionism. The profile is close to the middle on economy and environment.

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Where Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyCentered on economy
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentCentered on environment
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Hawkish realismSees the world as a contest between states, where military strength and alliances secure…94%NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…93%State capitalismUses a strong state to steer a market economy toward rapid growth, often limiting…92%CorporatismOrganizes society into industry and professional bodies that bargain with the state, an…91%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.