Over the past couple of years, Bahrain’s international image has been transformed from that of a small, quiet Gulf kingdom into a very different kind of country. Today it suffers from deepening human rights abuses. State-sponsored violence oppresses people who express views which conflict with those of the Al-Khalifa family. But while several other Arab states became international pariahs for their egregious human rights violations, Bahrain appears largely to have dodged international, ...