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These loopholes consist in not defining precisely what an interruption to constitutional rule signifies – just the overthrow of an elected president, or also shutting down a legislature or TV station?
It probably explains why Kouchner was one of the few important French political figures to support the Anglo-American overthrow of Saddam Hussein (something Sarkozy did not do).
Yet, as long as Assad’s forces can attack opposition-controlled neighborhoods with helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes, the opposition’s ability to overthrow the regime with the arms that are now available to it seems questionable.
Instead, a populist-nationalist revolution might resemble the attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991, or a Russian version of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.
The facts are that while China's neighbors and America have no great love of the Chinese Communist Party, they seek neither to "contain" nor overthrow it.
Outsiders are achieving significant political victories by making dramatic promises to shake up or overthrow the system.
From the French Revolution to Egypt and Syria, extremists have repeatedly overtaken moderates and then proceeded to mimic the tactics and politics of the government they originally united to overthrow.
Through occasional leaks, investigative reports, statements by other governments, and rare statements by US officials, we know that America is engaged in an active, ongoing, CIA-coordinated war both to overthrow Assad and to fight ISIS.
First there was the combined French and British action in Libya that led to the overthrow of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime; then came French intervention in Mali, and now Israeli airstrikes in Syria.
Despite the relatively costless overthrow of the Qaddafi regime, America’s prolonged interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq have severely strained the public’s tolerance for an active foreign policy.
Electoral losses or not, you can’t overthrow your chancellor without having a convincing replacement waiting in the wings.
It was also wrong to call for the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, because the forces opposed to Assad lacked the necessary popular support, and the US was not prepared to help them win that support.
It’s a combination that has led to the overthrow of two presidents in the last three years.
It is this short-term approach that leads us to celebrate each overthrow of a dictator, rather than think about how to educate people to demand good government.
After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year-old regime in Egypt, the heartland of the Middle East, amazement has turned into certainty.
The fact is that the Islamic State is not the only violent and destructive force in the country;Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom the militant group is committed to overthrow, is also a mass murderer and war criminal.
The reason they were possible at all was that the opposition’s goal was not the violent overthrow of party rule.
It has helped to curb the rise of political Islam across North Africa, including by backing the overthrow of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Deep skepticism of European macroeconomics will make the US want independence from a "European plot" to overthrow the market economy.
In Afghanistan and other parts of Asia the collapse of Communist regimes incited a rise in religious orthodoxy, as did the overthrow of the Shah in Iran.
The Venezuelan lieutenant colonel has repeatedly provided sanctuary, arms, diplomatic support, and financing to the FARC guerrillas fighting to overthrow the Colombian government.
In the 1640s, parliamentarians saw in it a legal basis for their overthrow of King Charles I. Later rebels, including the American revolutionaries and Nelson Mandela, have similarly justified their actions by appealing to Magna Carta.
But, while the overthrow of totalitarian or autocratic regimes shifted the global balance of power in favor of the forces of democracy, not all the pro-democracy movements succeeded.
This was how central banking got started in the first place: letting the market and the market alone determine the price of liquidity was judged too costly for the businessmen who voted and the workers who could overthrow governments.
For Turkey, the overthrow of Assad would bolster its regional standing.
The US foreign-policy establishment blames Russian President Vladimir Putin for defending Assad, while Russia blames the US for trying to overthrow him.
The attempt by the US and its allies to overthrow Assad violates the UN Charter, while Russia’s support of Assad is consistent with Syria’s right of self-defense under that charter.
The Solidarity movement of the 1980’s and the peaceful overthrow of communism was, in large measure, the work of their generation.
Eventually, workers would rise up and overthrow the system.
Such policy choices should be made rarely, and with a clear understanding that support for the violent overthrow of a government is not very popular around the world.
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