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Even in Libya, despite NATO’s decisive intervention, local actors will decide whether a democracy, another dictatorship, some kind of communitarian confederation, or chaos emerges.
The Gucci ArchipelagoMOSCOW: By following Western economic advice - devised in good faith to bring Russia to democracy and prosperity - Yeltsin and Co., true to the national character, created yet another form of dictatorship, with the leader ensconced in the Kremlin utterly indifferent to his subject's well-being.
The statement summarizes the Libyan regime’s extremely repressive response to the popular uprising against Qaddafi’s 42-year
dictatorship.
Thirty years of brutal
dictatorship
have destroyed the very concept of justice in Iraq.
Putin has established a purely personal
dictatorship.
On the face of it, countries moving toward democracy seem as likely to experience poor economic performance as countries moving toward renewed dictatorship, because political instability and uncertainty of any kind naturally hurt investment and growth.
Instead, under the credo of “managed democracy,” Putin has established a soft dictatorship, in which the law is flagrantly used for political ends; and, when the law is insufficient, the state resorts to assassination.
The Putin regime occupies a space between
dictatorship
and democracy for which Western political science has yet to find a proper word.
Yet, for all of the success epitomized by the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, bringing down a
dictatorship
is one thing – a drama lasting a few weeks – while the transition to a functioning, consolidated democracy is quite another.
The divisions between its south and north, which had been two different countries – with totally different histories –until Saleh’s dictatorship, are resurfacing again.
And Bachelet’s then-partner, a leader of the country’s Socialist Party, was detained and disappeared during the
dictatorship.
The country took shape during the Middle Ages in a dialectical process of interfaith relations, and its integration into the European Union stemmed from an overwhelming consensus on the need to suppress the ghosts of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, following his death in 1975.
Of course, the memory of
dictatorship
does not always suppress nostalgia for quasi-fascist experiments.
The absence of such political nostalgia in Spain may be explained partly by the fact that a brutal three-year civil war preceded the establishment of Franco’s
dictatorship
in 1939.
But any attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule will create such a political mess that it is not absurd to fear that Ukraine could follow Belarus and the Balkans of the early 1990's into outright
dictatorship
and chaos.
At the same time, they became viable candidates without calling for revenge (Mujica was imprisoned and tortured during the 12-year military dictatorship, and rigged elections deprived AMLO of the presidency at least once).
In fact, the Internet is inherently about giving you access to diverse opinions, at which point you are on your own in terms of figuring out what is accurate and who is distorting truth in the service of some malevolent
dictatorship.
It is the classic first step toward dictatorship, as is censorship of Muslim Brotherhood media.
That was a source of strength during the overthrow of Mubarak’s dictatorship; now it is a source of weakness.
After the
dictatorship
of the colonels, Greece sought international rehabilitation through membership in the European Community, whose imprimatur in turn helped to consolidate the fragile new democratic regime.
But Spain’s grip on the territory had weakened in the dying days of Francisco Franco’s
dictatorship.
CAIRO – Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first-ever elected civilian president, recently granted himself sweeping temporary powers in order, he claims, to attain the objectives of the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak’s
dictatorship.
But the anti-Morsi forces that backed the revolution regard the price of cleansing the judiciary as too high, arguing that the constitutional declaration will lead to
dictatorship.
More ominous than the potential actions of the ex-communists is the bitter fact that half of the Polish population, the half that fought so hard to establish democracy in Poland, may see in the new democratically elected president a representative of
dictatorship
and national dependency and thus consider him morally unfit to hold his office.
The rest of the region’s mafia states, such as Russia, Azerbaijan, and other Central Asian former Soviet republics, either passed through a period of oligarchic flux, or took a direct path from communist
dictatorship
to criminal enterprise.
It is easy to sympathize with the rebels against Bashar al-Assad’s
dictatorship
in Syria, for example.
The resurgence of economic nationalism which unites Brexit, Trumpism, and the European far right will not lead to the breakdown of trade, hot wars, dictatorship, or rapid de-globalization.
China’s Brittle Development ModelNEW DELHI – After gaining independence from Britain in 1947, India was something of a poster child for the virtues of democracy – in stark contrast with China, which became a Communist
dictatorship
in 1949.
Finally, Bell’s view can be refuted by a simple observation: No population that has gained democratic rights has clamored for a return to
dictatorship.
The elections could bring Zimbabweans a chance to end the long
dictatorship
of President Robert Mugabe.
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