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For starters, tensions between several Southeast Asian countries and China are on the rise, owing partly to the fact that China, under President Xi Jinping (its most autocratic leader since Deng Xiaoping), has been acting increasingly assertively in staking its contested territorial claims in the region’s waters.
Other Southeast Asian autocrats, or elected leaders with autocratic tendencies, have also celebrated the arrival of Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.
As Hun Sen, Duterte, and others have shown, the new US approach fosters impunity for autocratic leaders.
But their economic corporatism and autocratic style are similar.
A democratic, stable, and prosperous Ukraine would be a constant irritant – and rebuke – to President Vladimir Putin’s autocratic and economically sclerotic Russian Federation.
But democracy is messy; with some of our Orange Revolution’s promises postponed or disavowed by President Viktor Yushchenko, there is a chance that on March 26, when Ukrainians vote for a new parliament, they may in their disappointment choose to return to the realm of corrupt and autocratic rule.
The Divine Right of DonaldWASHINGTON, DC – US President Donald Trump may not seem to have much in common with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, but Trump’s autocratic tendencies are becoming more apparent by the day.
Moreover, Western corporations are hierarchical and autocratic, similar to the Chinese one-party state, so senior executives’ errors of judgment are rarely challenged directly by their underlings.
Before long, both Trump and his autocratic hero could be regretting that they ever sought each other out.
But, lest we forget, the last autocratic ruler in the Middle East who attempted to bypass his country’s Islamic clergy and carry out a top-down revolution was the Shah of Persia, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The People's Republic now embodies two systems: the centralized, autocratic Communist administration, dominated by an outdated ideology and military interests, and the decentralized free-market economic regime.
Nepal’s earlier experiments with democratic governance were not very successful; democratically elected governments (in the late 1950’s and the 1990’s) were unceremoniously replaced by prolonged autocratic rule.
That has helped reinforce the Chinese elite’s faith in the country’s fusion of autocratic politics and state capitalism.
Brazil has barely uttered a word in reaction to the region’s tumult, while Russia and China have little taste for sanctions against Libya in light of their own autocratic governments.
But President Vladimir Putin has learned much from the autocratic tactics of his predecessors, whereas the Russian people seem to have learned nothing.
But a strong leader is not necessarily an autocratic leader.
The legitimacy of their autocratic systems is almost entirely dependent on their success in delivering rapid economic growth.
The focus in the West on the form of governance, as opposed to inclusive economic and social outcomes, is misguided, they believe, because both democratic and autocratic systems can be corrupted.
An autocratic or corrupt regime has a strong incentive to spend in a way that benefits the elite.
But there is little evidence that democratic tumult translates into autocratic legitimacy.
Though stories of democratic dysfunction can give people living under autocratic rule a negative impression of democracy, the effect is most likely short-lived.
But, while the overthrow of totalitarian or autocratic regimes shifted the global balance of power in favor of the forces of democracy, not all the pro-democracy movements succeeded.
So we need the world’s democracies to stand with us and support us, lest our people become discouraged and be tempted by the autocratic forces waiting in the wings to return to power in the coming parliamentary election.
World War II, from which 70 years of liberal democracy emerged in Western Europe, is used in Russia to legitimize the current autocratic regime.
Then, in February 2018, Khama broke the silence among African leaders and called for Joseph Kabila, the autocratic president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to “relinquish power.”
The deal is also, in the eyes of Israelis, a badge of honor for their res publica – their Periclean democracy’s claim to the moral high ground in an autocratic neighborhood.
Or will the Palestinians change their autocratic leadership peacefully, as in Serbia when Slobodan Milosevic was ousted?
He has expedited the canonization process for John XXIII, who inaugurated Vatican II almost a half-century ago, and John Paul II, the autocratic Pole who reined in many of Vatican II’s liberating impulses.
Since autocratic regimes in the Middle East left little room for free expression, the mosque emerged as the only place where people could freely congregate.
Meanwhile, Russia’s troubles remain hidden behind the strong arm tactics and oil bloated coffers of Putin’s autocratic bureaucracy.
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