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Throughout the world, to receive what one knows are stolen goods is a crime – except, it seems, when the goods are stolen by dictators from the people they dominate.
In Germany and Italy, fascist parties came out on top, while elsewhere, dictators were backed by armies or kings.
In Turkey – and in a less radical form under the Shah in Iran and under military dictators in countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Iraq – the population never had a choice.
Trump – with his admiration of dictators, unabashed racism and sexism, ignorance regarding the issues, and mercurial temperament – stands at the top of this list.
PRINCETON – Hitler and Stalin were ruthless dictators who committed murder on a vast scale.
Rising “soft” dictators – what the journalist Bobby Ghosh calls authoritarian democrats – have used these feelings of unease and alienation to attract votes.
Sure, dictators are almost always oddballs themselves, but that cannot be all there is to it.
In the 1990’s, when communist regimes collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe, and dictators fell in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, the Arab world stood out for its lack of popular, anti-authoritarian movements and developments.
And, while the “Arab Spring” demonstrations in 2011 brought down or seriously challenged dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria, the result has been instability, violence, and civil war, not democratization.
President Charles Taylor's resignation from Liberia's presidency and his exile in Nigeria is not only a welcome relief for the war-torn land he so misruled, but also perhaps a bellwether for other discredited dictators.
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.
If so, leaders such as Mbeki will emerge as heroes for a new Africa, where intervention in neighboring states will protect the millions on the continent who remain subjugated by elderly dictators like Mugabe, who have exploited their position as anti-colonial liberation leaders, and younger, free-booting adventurers like Taylor.
Both had been unstable for a long time, ruled by secular Ba’athist dictators who faced popular majorities that adhered to a rival Muslim sect, in addition to a large population of Kurds, who have long dreamed of independence.
This type of branding is common among dictators.
The oddest-looking of all contemporary dictators must be North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, whose clean-shaven back and sides are cultivated as a deliberate imitation of his grandfather’s 1930s proletarian hairstyle.
Having earned many millions of dollars working for dictators and thugs around the world, including Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and Jonas Savimbi in Angola, in recent decades he made much of his fortune working for Russian oligarchs and the Russian-backed former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
Why resort to such elaborate and costly measures against political/religious opponents when simpler methods of neutralizing them - such as execution or imprisonment - are available to dictators?
The successors to those dictators, however, found this turn of events to be an unwanted complication in their political “thaws”; more sophisticated mechanisms to induce fear among their peoples were needed, and there are few deterrents to dissident activity more potent than the threat of removal to an institution for the criminally insane.
It is something that must be defended; so-called "enabling laws" that suspend the rule of law are the first weapon of dictators.
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.
The region’s dictators have sought to dismiss the “Jasmine Revolution,” but the spark that started in Tunisia could spread – perhaps in a matter of months or years – to the entire Arab world.
Its strength is belief itself – belief in a moral order that defies secular, or, indeed, religious dictators.
But the authority of those dictators did not rest primarily on the rule of law; that of their modern counterparts does.
The dictators remained, however, Molotov and Stalin among them.
Recent history is replete with alarming examples of dictators and would be dictators who refuse to recognize when their time has run out.
From the “People Power” revolution that toppled Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986 to Boris Yeltsin’s defiance of the attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev of August 1991, to the Rose, Orange, and Cedar Revolutions of recent years, dictators have been forced to admit defeat when enough people stand up to them.
The Middle East’s demographic youth bulge is well known, but no one predicted that its members would mobilize social media and cell phones to topple long-established dictators.
Arab dictators have long lacked interest in real peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because the region’s precarious stability provided justification for their own undemocratic regimes.
The secret behind these countries’ success is relentlessly focused leaders, whether entrenched but benign dictators or democratically elected politicians with a shared vision of a broad-based economy.
Nuclear weapons cannot be left to the whims and fancies of dictators, authoritarians, and democratically elected presidents – gender notwithstanding.
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