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Moreover, Putin’s project to safeguard “great Russian statehood” from the disarray of the post-Soviet era has seen the imprisoning of “dishonest” oligarchs; the prosecution of an “irresponsible” press; and the establishment of his personal
dictatorship
over the rule of law.
While Mexico had a petroleum-based boom in the wake of the second oil-price shock of the 1970’s, Argentina suffered from economic mismanagement under a military
dictatorship
that then staged its disastrous invasion of the Falkland Islands/Malvinas.
Punishment is ultimately an instrument – not the only one, nor the most important – for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by
dictatorship.
In the transition from
dictatorship
to democracy, members of the judiciary lack legitimacy.
More precisely, Russia’s aim is to rescue (after a long period of arm’s-length support) a
dictatorship
that American and French authorities describe as being responsible for causing more than 250,000 deaths since 2011.
For example, no one even mentions the idea of introducing a dictatorship, abolishing elections, and so on.
This is never difficult in China, given the painful past, and it usefully deflects public attention from the failings and frustrations of living in a
dictatorship.
Dictatorship
is not only safe in China, but, at least for now, it is on the offensive.
Indonesia’s current political transition from
dictatorship
to democracy, although no unqualified success, shows that this is achievable.
In fact, by bringing about a convergence between democracy and dictatorship, new technologies render both of these dystopian visions impossible.
He is, observers warn, creating an information-age dictatorship, in which the technologies that were once expected to bring freedom to China’s 1.4 billion citizens have instead enabled him to entrench his own authority.
In the past, those dreams brought only underdevelopment, dictatorship, nationalism and untold amounts of suffering.
Military rule and putsches stemming from factional infighting among generals were the norm until the early 1970’s, when university students overthrew a military
dictatorship
and opened up democratic space.
Israel is not a
dictatorship.
The Congress Party, to paraphrase Brown University’s Richard Snyder, resembles a “neo-patrilineal dictatorship,” in which “[p]eople get goodies for being close to the ruler.”
I was a member of the Spanish Constitutional Commission that wrote the Spanish constitution in 1975 and 1976, following the death of Franco, so I know what it is to move from
dictatorship
to democracy – and how important it is that a constitution be framed by consensus.
Americans, not unlike many people outside the Middle East, regard the struggle in Iraq as one pitting those who supported democracy against those who somehow supported the
dictatorship
(“dead-enders,” as then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld described them at a Pentagon press conference).
Furthermore, in the Greater Middle East, the fall of one secular
dictatorship
after another, coupled with the loosening of external control, has incited new – and rekindled old – suspicions, religious disagreements, and mistrust of outsiders in general and the West in particular.
Transforming a
dictatorship
into a democracy in a country that has never known democracy and lacked the economic and civic resources to sustain it was at least a generation-long endeavor (though neither the US nor the UK government initially justified the intervention on these grounds).
This severe downturn created widespread social discontent, and with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of US support for military regimes in the region, every Latin American
dictatorship
except Cuba’s was upended.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s
dictatorship
is even more violent than that of Hosni Mubarak, the strongman whose 30-year rule was ended by the 2011 uprising.
Francis was no doubt informed by the transition from military
dictatorship
to democracy in his native Argentina.
It soon became clear that they were in fact creating another
dictatorship
in place of the one they had removed.
Hun Sen has hardly been shy about his slide toward what the Cambodia Daily, on its last day of publishing, termed a “descent into outright dictatorship.”
What began as a democratic uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s
dictatorship
has developed into a cat’s cradle of conflicts, partly reflecting a brutal proxy struggle among Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia for regional domination.
Russia thus finds itself allied with Iran in supporting Assad’s dictatorship, while Iran, in turn, is pursuing its own geopolitical interests by backing its Shia ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, for which the Syrian hinterland is indispensable.
During his first of two missions to China last year, Kim Jung Il asked President Jiang Zemin about how to move towards a market economy yet maintain an authoritarian
dictatorship.
The censorship of memory, which we once fondly imagined to be the mark of dictatorship, is now a major growth industry in the “free” West.
Towards a Liberal
Dictatorship?
To continue with the privatization of the natural monopolies that will give a criminal and corrupt elite another chance to fill their pockets, may require extinguishing even the vestiges of democracy that existed under Yeltsin, thus pushing Russia on the way to a “liberal dictatorship.”
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