When we look at developed country we can see the innovation and adaptability within the government and the citizens within. The fundamental to the success of the wealthy and industrialized countries is the capability to account for variable change. The economic and social environment is rapidly changing, a country can sustain stability only if it can effectively anticipate and respond to the changing demands (Brown, 2011). In the Middle East, stability is measured in terms of the politics, economics, and social tensions that shape the nation.
The political stability, levels of democracy, voter participation, and press freedom represent a traditional Western approach to evaluating the legitimacy of governance (Cordesman, 2011). The Middle Eastern countries do have valuable information on how to govern because they do try to mirror the Western approach on government. They still need better and more sophisticated measures for the government to put into practice (Cordesman, 2011).They need a political system where there is the existence of groups with different ethnic, religious, or political background that have a credible voice that hold the capabilities to govern and deal with the underlying problems in the region. A key challenge for the Middle East’s stability is how to reshape the government to meet the popular need (Cordesman, 2011). Just as we recently seen in Egypt, the United States had to enforce the power of the people’s voice by forcing former president, Hosni Mubarak, to step down from office so the new president could take control.
Despite the efforts of trying to mimic the democratic system, repression does not bring security and stability to the Middle East. The problems with security forces and rule of law are seen as corrupt.
“Repression is sometimes mixed with poor policing, corrupt police and courts, confessions-based justice that involves hard interrogation, and corrupt or elite influence over the commercial justice system and property rights. Less public surveys in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq provide important warning that human rights abuses and harsh security procedures are only part of the problem and one that reaches a far smaller part of the population. It is the overall quality of policing and the justice system that may do far more to either encourage stability or lead to major unrest” (Cordesman, 2011).
However, essentially mirror image Western values as universal values in ways that often ignore the level of economic progress and well being, the quality of government services, the level of government expenditure to meet popular needs, and the extent to which governments do or do not meet popular expectations on a broad level (Cordesman, 2011). Economic analyses focus on total national economic growth, the size of GDPs, opportunities for investment, and measures that are critical to macroeconomics and business, but fail to provide meaningful measures of stability (Cordesman, 2011).
“Data on per capita GDP help put the economic pressure on stability in more perspective, but differ sharply from source-to- source – even when they appear to have the same definition. Like many indicators in this briefing they can be useful as warning, but do not directly indicate stability. The same is true of employment data. These figures are very controversial. Many governments understate the level of direct unemployment, none report credibly on the size of the potential work force that is excluded from employment data (particularly women), and there is no clear measure of disguised unemployment where a job does exist but has no real value or productivity gain” (Cordesman, 2011).
The Middle Eastern countries are not paying attention to their key rapid growing population, which are their young adults. The government lacks awareness of the growing delays in employment, need of opportunity for real careers, poor opportunity for secondary and university graduates, exclusion of educated young women and loss of productivity gain, serious problems in financing marriage and housing, discrimination by group and favoritism in job opportunities (Cordesman, 2011).
When asked is the Middle East stable, it is not hard to quickly attack the question with all the doubts in terms of the politics, economics, and social tensions that shape the nation. Change does not act quickly and adapting to the population and social changes takes time. We cannot solve key economic problems in less than half a decade (Cordesman, 2011). We cannot suddenly create whole new political systems, or deal with the challenge of religion (Cordesman, 2011). The factor that can quickly be fixed is the mentality of listening to the voice of the people. Finding their causes of distress and resolve them is the most apparent way to modernize the structure of the government. The only way this will be enforced is if the elites come down to the level of wanting to understand their citizens. By doing so, the Middle East can seek consistent progress over time. The challenge for every country and regime in the Middle East is to find a new balance of efforts that can be meet popular needs and expectations (Cordesman, 2011). It is also to communicate the limits to what can and cannot be done. This ultimately requires both listening to the people and communicating with them. It also requires some existing regimes to rethink much of their approach to national security and stability, and new regimes to consider from the start what can and cannot be credibly accomplished in ways that actually serve their people” (Cordesman, 2011).

References
Brown, D. R. (2011). An Experiential Approach to Organization Development. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Cordesman, A. H. (2011, April 14). Stability in the Middle East: The Other Side of Security. Retrieved April 17, 2011, from Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://csis.org/publication/stability-middle-east-other-side-security