Dictatorship
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After the ouster of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US turned its sights on the secular
dictatorship
of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Many Muslims acquiesced in this deviation, viewing the invasion of Iraq as part of the passing of
dictatorship
and the coming of democracy.
True, Maliki’s nascent
dictatorship
is lighter than that of Saddam at his worst, and perhaps that is some progress.
And in Belarus, Europe’s last dictatorship, collective farming was never undone, and a former collective farm director, Aleksandr Lukashenko, runs the country.
But his rejection of pluralism and pursuit of an Islamic dictatorship, exemplified by his efforts to centralize power in the hands of the Brothers and place himself beyond the review of Egypt’s judiciary, proved to be his undoing.
In science, a
dictatorship
of reason is combined with the freedom of ideas.
What started in France in 1789 as an uprising of the middle classes in alliance with the sans culottes ended up with the return of the monarchy in the form of Napoleon’s
dictatorship.
At this point, Venezuela descended into outright
dictatorship.
The ability to criticize the government freely is the core difference between democracy and
dictatorship.
But the stolen local elections that took place last autumn have set the country back 50 years, to the time of the Somoza
dictatorship.
Syrians have experienced uninterrupted
dictatorship
for 40 years, and, with it, extreme economic hardship, including high unemployment, rising food prices, and endemic corruption.
The unfortunate paradox in Georgia – and elsewhere in the post-Soviet world – is that self-serving pro-Western rhetoric has often led democratic values to be sacrificed in favor of a new
dictatorship.
In contrast, by virtue of competing in the global market, South Korea's military
dictatorship
had no choice but to invest in education to improve its workforce.
The reformers have less authority but are the acceptable face of the Saudi
dictatorship
internationally.
But the alternative – rule not by law but by
dictatorship
– is a far nastier prospect.
Ironically, however, the newly empowered democratic opposition would like to bring back the name Burma, viewing “Myanmar” as emblematic of the
dictatorship
that they wish to leave behind.
More important, Maduro’s regime already is a military dictatorship, with officers in charge of many government agencies.
With the fall of the dictatorship, attention focused naturally on elections.
More important,
dictatorship
of any kind can readily be seen to be a terrible way to govern a society.
Germany, for example, became obsessed with austerity, in order to ensure that runaway inflation did not contribute to dictatorship, as it had in the 1920s.
This wholesale rejection of communism remained a core component of Greece’s official ideology until the collapse of the country’s military
dictatorship
in 1974, when communist organizations again became legal.
Foreign investment is already at its nadir, due to the lingering political crisis following the fall of the Suharto dictatorship, and to doubts about the soundness of the country's institutional and legal capacity.
To the US, China is a big-data
dictatorship
that has detained one million Uighurs in concentration camps, cracked down on Christians, curtailed civil rights, and destroyed the environment – all while building up its military and threatening America’s regional allies.
The North Korean CultNEW YORK – The absurdity of the North Korean
dictatorship
is easy to caricature.
Independence from France (in 1960) spawned a
dictatorship
remarkable mainly for its longevity.
South Koreans no longer fear brutal dictatorship; they fear economic monopoly, and the resulting dearth of opportunity.
As an opponent of the military
dictatorship
that ruled his country years ago, Lula advocated respect for human rights, free and fair elections, and representative democracy.
That way lies
dictatorship.
On the ideological map of the world, it was Soviet territory, a land of famine, dictatorship, and civil war.
But, with the overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariam’s Marxist-Leninist
dictatorship
in 1991, Ethiopia began to transform itself.
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