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Turkey is more dynamic and energetic than Russia, and its economy certainly is faring much better, but both regimes are overestimating the strength of their position and underestimating the cost of their autocratic turn.
The denunciation of popular protests is not just the province of autocratic regimes.
The current regime is clearly autocratic.
In 1988, India snuffed out a coup attempt against the autocratic Maumoon Abdul Gayoom engineered by a Maldivian businessman with the aid of armed mercenaries, especially Sri Lankan Tamil separatists.
In Europe, after all, Calvin's Geneva - an autocratic theocracy, more similar to Khomeini's Teheran than to any other regime - eventually developed, through English Puritanism, towards modern parliamentary government.
Alas, given their histories of autocratic rule, giant leaps forward to full-blown democracy are unlikely.
The staunchly pro-American Saakashvili launched successful economic reforms and an all-out assault on police corruption, though he, too, eventually was accused of taking bribes and indulging autocratic impulses.
And now, under Putin’s similarly autocratic regime, Russia plans to create, over time, a vast Eurasian Union.
The Fed of old usually had a charismatic, autocratic, professional central banker at its head: Benjamin Strong, Marriner Eccles, William McChesney Martin, Paul Volcker, and Alan Greenspan.
This stance characterizes populist governments, often sustained mainly by gas and oil, that practice autocratic democracy, ignoring any formal constitutional division of powers and running roughshod over independent institutions and the press.
Europe’s governments are now much criticized for propping up autocratic Arab regimes, but their real failure has been one of omission: the lack of economic cooperation and development assistance offered to the region.
Government is free to become more autocratic.
In Mutahi’s case, the use of his own family in his parodies was a device intended to demonstrate that petty domestic despotism was no different from the political tyranny orchestrated by an autocratic president.
Yes, Dubai is certainly an autocratic state where finances are tightly and secretively controlled.
It does, however, increase the costs for autocratic regimes of not having accountable political systems.
But autocratic regimes, we learned through the disappointments of detente, are unusually well equipped to stifle yearnings for freedom among their populace.
Then both autocratic regimes and the economic achievements over which they presided are at risk.
Despite calls by the Russian public for reform – from modernization of the military and decrepit and corrupt legal institutions to diversification of the economy beyond natural-resource extraction and the military-industrial complex – Putin has stuck to his autocratic guns.
Left-leaning pundits claim that the dictator’s daughter has the same autocratic vision as her father, though Park invariably prefers incremental change to radical measures, and cut her political teeth in the tough-minded politics of the GNP.
He has chosen to respond by tightening his autocratic grip, with the body that appoints prosecutors and judges set to become a mere appendage of the justice ministry.
That pits it against Saudi Arabia and countries like the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan, whose rulers view such movements as an existential threat, with some, including the House of Saud, investing in propping up autocratic regimes like their own.
Under Khrushchev and Gorbachev (and also Yeltsin), Russia was an autocratic society in which control of the elite was the key to power.
The West’s blind support for autocratic Arab rulers has reduced all hope of peaceful change.
The trend can be seen in traditionally autocratic regimes.
Less than a decade later, he had erected a personal autocratic regime on the ruins of a flawed new democracy.
China’s autocratic government is famous for avoiding such scrutiny by suppressing freedom of information.
The growing popularity of strongmen in much of the world may or may not herald the dawn of a new autocratic age.
Constitutional monarchy limited the scope for wasteful spending on luxurious court life (as well as on military adventure) – the hallmark of early modern autocratic monarchy.
It is strange that Saakashvili, a graduate of Columbia Law School, fails to see the disparity between his own democratic rhetoric and autocratic actions.
In the 1930’s, it was the autocratic and belligerent governments of Germany and Japan that could derive the most capital from the failure of the London conference.
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