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As they see it, the immediate choices in the Arab world are not between
dictatorship
and democracy, but between malevolent stability and apocalyptic mayhem.
Few people have understood this better than the Polish democratic activist and thinker Adam Michnik, one of the heroes who in the 1980’s helped to end the Communist
dictatorship
in his country.
A 42-year
dictatorship
does not exactly provide fertile ground for the learning and experience needed to create an impartial court.
Once-open societies are veering toward dictatorship, and in many countries, despotic tendencies are strengthening.
Indeed, whereas West Germany banned a neo-Nazi party and the Communist Party in the 1950’s, some countries –particularly in Southern and Eastern Europe, where
dictatorship
came to be associated with the suppression of pluralism – have drawn precisely the opposite lesson about preventing authoritarianism.
The implication, encouraged by the regime, was that Kaltho was a recruit of mine who blew himself up while preparing his next bomb in a campaign of terror aimed at Sanni Abacha’s
dictatorship.
After more than a half-century of military dictatorship, Myanmar has restored democratic rule, and now has a civilian-led government led by the former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD).
Thailand, by contrast, has twice reverted from popular rule to military
dictatorship
in the past decade, owing to coups in 2006 and 2014.
Myanmar initiated its shift toward democracy in 2003, when the country’s military
dictatorship
unveiled a seven-step roadmap.
Yet the
dictatorship
in Beijing has made its presence felt, if only through proxies and collaborators.
No one, not even Maazel, pretends that one concert by a great Western orchestra can blow a
dictatorship
away, but authoritarians’ wariness of the subversive power of music dates back to Plato’s Republic .
But the stranglehold of North Korea’s
dictatorship
is based on total isolation.
It may not topple the dictatorship, but it will offer some solace to those who are forced to live in it.
But would overthrowing a sovereign government – even an appalling
dictatorship
like Assad’s – really place the US or Russia on the right side of history?
It was necessary to unite the West in order to prevent the spread of dictatorship, as well as the danger of a relapse into old national conflicts.
Although the Sandinista Front in Nicaragua did win a semi-legitimate election in 1984, it had reached power five years earlier by overthrowing the Somoza
dictatorship.
It also declared that a system based on sharia (Islamic law), including polygamy, would replace the secular
dictatorship
that Qaddafi ran for 42 years.
With five former generals in Bolsonaro’s cabinet, Brazil’s government will have more senior officers than at any time since the end of the military
dictatorship
in 1985.
The MILF was not deterred by the popular overthrow of Marcos’s 20-year
dictatorship
in 1986, following the assassination of the opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr.Nor did the establishment of democracy – now deeply entrenched – inspire the group’s leaders to reconsider their approach.
But a few Chinese in Australia have allowed themselves to become foot soldiers of China’s Leninist (not really communist) dictatorship, manipulated by Chinese diplomats and a few businessmen.
Adopted in its present form by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq’s military
dictatorship
more than three decades ago, the blasphemy law imposes a mandatory death penalty on anyone convicted of insulting Islam.
The hope was that isolation and sanctions would topple Kim Jong Il’s
dictatorship.
In Egypt, it was the military’s refusal to side with former President Hosni Mubarak that helped end his 30-year
dictatorship.
By participating actively in politics, basing their electoral choices on rational self-interest, and developing the sense of moderation needed to resist dictatorship, the middle class promotes democratic progress.
The world’s largest
dictatorship
is preparing to crush and occupy the first Chinese democracy in history – Taiwan.
Just as a ruthless Prime Minister Chirac sold a nuclear reactor to Saddam Hussein in the 1970’s, so the President Chirac of today is being lured into doing big business with another aggressive
dictatorship.
Reinfeldt became the first Conservative party leader in Swedish history to encourage arms exports to a Communist
dictatorship.
The seven decades of their
dictatorship
blighted the little bits of a law-based society that had taken root root.
The European Parliament has consistently denounced Belarus as Europe’s last dictatorship, yet EU member governments continue business as usual with Aleksander Lukashenka, the country’s wayward and near lunatic despot.
This meager effort, however, is an insufficient response by Europe’s democracies to the full panoply of Lukashenka’s dictatorship: his docile courts, brutal jails, and corrupt police.
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