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Mass mobilization to bring down a dictator is one thing; building democratic institutions is quite another.
Similarly, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il likes to watch Hollywood movies, but that is unlikely to affect his decision about whether to give up his nuclear weapons program.
Several times in recent weeks, cellphone texts (today’s sirens) have informed the public that the faint streak in the sky overhead is an intercontinental ballistic missile launched by a nuclear-armed 33-year-old dictator with impulse control issues.
It is to be hoped that Taylor's departure heralds the beginning of a new African era, in which Africa's rulers stop protecting the continent's dictators because they would rather incur the wrath of faceless citizens than expel a dictator from among their ranks.
A dictator who wants to control every aspect of people’s lives will seek to ignore the preferences of everyone else.
Can South Korea Save the Day?CAMBRIDGE – As North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump’s war of words escalates, Independence Day celebrations – commemorating the Korean Peninsula’s 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule – are unfolding in both North and South Korea.
For Pakistan’s small and embattled liberal and left-wing forces, he is yet another military dictator who seized and holds power by force, undermining the development of democracy.
A thuggish guttersnipe more akin to Aleksander Lukashenka, the dictator of Belarus, than to the great dictators, Lepper nonetheless represents a hideous post-modern form of irrational politics.
Even the most thuggish Burmese dictator must hesitate before unleashing lethal force on men dressed in the maroon and saffron robes of their faith.
US President Donald Trump is not a Nazi dictator (though some of his closest advisers admire some of the ideas that inspired fascism and Nazism in the past).
But, more importantly, no military dictator can succeed where Musharraf has so clearly failed.
At the same time, some institutions that could provide effective international oversight have been coopted, as demonstrated by Libya’s leadership of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights while under the control of deposed dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Trump’s rash outbursts have allowed North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to present himself practically as a peacemaker by comparison – a development that may open the way for that highly dangerous regime to maintain its nuclear arsenal far into the future.
The common aim should be to remove the threat posed by a dictator with so well-documented a predilection for weapons of mass destruction.
Yet even as inflation rises and the 77-year-old dictator tightens Internet access and closes the economic openings that encouraged self-employment in the mid-1990's, it is unlikely that Cubans will turn Castro out before he dies.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is undoubtedly operating according to a different political calculus than the Soviets, and the strategic situation on the Korean Peninsula is even more daunting than in Cuba.
That a socialist revolutionary – who first came to power after violently ousting the dictator Anastasio Somoza – should seek legitimacy in a Christian god is odd.
Putin’s four-hour news conference in December recalled nothing so much as Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s demise at a staged mass meeting in 1989, when he was confronted by heckling and protests.
In recent months, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump have publicly bragged about the “size” of their buttons and the robustness of their arsenals.
First, Kim may be a vicious dictator, but he is not crazy or suicidal.
Anti-Americanism and Europe's IdentityThe question of how the international community should deal with Saddam Hussein, Iraq's ruthless dictator, is rightly the year's dominant theme.
Above all, it was the Cuban Revolution of 1959 – in which armed revolutionaries successfully overthrew the military dictator Fulgencio Batista – that inspired this movement.
Whenever we are encouraged to oppose a dictator, the specter of Adolf Hitler is invoked, and the ghosts of 1938 are resurrected to counter skepticism about hasty “preemptive” war.
Last year, I began to fear that Museveni had become yet another African dictator, more concerned with power than principle.
This is no hearsay; former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf has largely acknowledged it.
France opposed the war in Iraq in 2003; intervened militarily against Libya’s dictator, stopping a potential crime against humanity in March 2011; and saved a fragile democracy in Muslim-majority Mali in 2013.
Indeed, earlier this year, Moscow was roiled by debates about whether or not to build a statue to the dead dictator.
If you are a dictator facing sustained political protests, be as brutal as possible and incite sectarian killing.
As the example of Saddam Hussein teaches us anew, to overturn a monument is easier than to try a dictator.
The clearest case concerns former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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