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Herein lies the core of the dilemma for the US: it wants Egypt’s basic state apparatus to survive, so that the levers of power do not fall into the wrong hands.
But Putin never lost control over the governmental apparatus, and the prospect of his regaining the presidency never dimmed.
Meanwhile, the Chinese state apparatus is largely detached from the military, while the party’s top civilian leaders, despite their nominal prerogatives, have only a loose grip on the generals.
With a huge political apparatus, the support of the Orthodox Church, the revival of the levers of corruption so often used in Romanian politics, and a victory in the first round, Ponta’s triumph seemed all but certain.
In fact, the apparatus of the Bretton Woods arrangements that Keynes subsequently helped to craft were designed to ease a difficult transition out of debt.
This fixation on what the government calls weiwen, or stability maintenance, has spawned a well-oiled security apparatus that extends from state-of-the-art surveillance and extra-legal detention centers to an army of paid informants and neighborhood “safety patrols” on the lookout for troublemakers.
The CCP must decide how to accommodate the social forces that will benefit from further globalization while disentangling itself from its traditional power base, housed in the failing state-owned sector propped up by the old central planning apparatus.
Although Mubarak and his interior (security) minister, Habib al-Adly, were handed life sentences at the conclusion of their trials, the generals who ran Egypt’s apparatus of repression as deputy interior ministers were acquitted.
The collapse of authoritarian rule created a security vacuum with no functioning state apparatus, making Libya highly exposed to international influence, often in the service of corporate interests.
As China nears membership in the WTO, its political and administrative apparatus is mobilizing to improve the investment environment and property rights for foreign investors.
Last month’s unceremonious killing of a billionaire businessman detained by security forces on corruption charges seemed to reflect the tacit division of power between the president and Iran’s security apparatus.
While the technocracy facilitates economic expansion, the state’s massive security apparatus muzzles civil liberties and political rights.
As a result, the conservatives’ considerable ideological, institutional, and propaganda apparatus was mobilized in favor of Raisi, and against Rouhani.
Its surveillance apparatus is mostly used to monitor budget deficits in real time, but it could also help to evaluate the future consequences of policy decisions.
He remains solidly in control of the Chinese party-state’s security apparatus and the military.
This led to a split between the state’s official institutions and Qaddafi’s shadow revolutionary apparatus.
The Bush administration has created a transnational apparatus of lawlessness that he alone, without global intervention, can neither roll back nor control.
Against this backdrop, Kudrin has clearly been installed to ensure that the “trusted” security apparatus can actually be trusted.
Although in theory communism aimed to establish a system of class justice, Lenin’s heirs maintained domestic power through a brutal security apparatus involving lethal purges, gulags, broad censorship, and ubiquitous informants.
The Syrian intelligence apparatus has provided much valuable information on the activities of Muhammad Atta and others suspected of involvement in those attacks, as well as information about other al-Qaeda activities.
Within government, he squezzed regional governors, both chambers of parliament and even the government apparatus, concentrating all legislative, executive and judicial power in himself.
This activated a virtuous circle; by strengthening the social movements rallying around the right to food, the Supreme Court’s decision enabled them to ratchet up pressure on state governments to build an effective food-security apparatus.
The predatory nature of Yanukovych’s rule is not exactly well hidden; his family members and loyalists control the entire security apparatus and the main economic agencies.
By identifying squarely with the military-security apparatus headed by Ahmadinejad, Khamenei has alienated an important segment of the ruling clerical elite.
But, while some parts of the security apparatus might support an initial crackdown, violent repression would be difficult to sustain.
After being victimized by Chiang Kai-shek's spies, China's Communist rulers created a vast spying apparatus of their own.
Jiang's increasing dependence on internal spying and the "security apparatus" may also be due to Jiang's close relations with his confidante Zeng Qinghong, the son of Zeng Shan, who was Minister of the Interior in charge of domestic espionage in the earliest days of Communist rule.
However, this is the same man who, as the head of Cuba’s internal security apparatus, for many years represented the knuckles of an iron-fisted regime, directly responsible for imprisoning – and often torturing – thousands of dissidents.
Japan, however, cannot afford to waste time building a new apparatus to prevent party-financing scandals.
In the first round on February 26, voters showed a higher level of trust in their electoral institutions than did many political actors, who urged postponement of the election, or a boycott, on the grounds that Wade’s control of the state apparatus made a free and fair election impossible.
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