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This movie is a warning that there must be no more regimes such as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
This is another "sleeper" about totalitarian regimes in Central America.
Archbishop Romero slowly evolved from a bookworm to a politically aware activist as he came to realize what the military regimes were doing to the poor of his country.
This is a bleak, despairing film about unrelenting oppression, told with a chilling beauty, and blessed with an even, steady gaze at one of the most brutal regimes of recent times.
Ultimately, it is a plea to stop the torture and murder of civilians who suffer under repressive political regimes.
The nature of totalitarian, ideologically driven regimes makes them good settings for drama and the presentation of the best and worst of human nature.
Equating the US with regimes that murdered 30-40 million of their own people is dis-ingenuousness at its worst.
Central America saw some of the most brutal and repressive civil wars and regimes.
Like anyone who has lived through occupation, violent regimes, and brutal wars, we know that trust, so long to develop, can be thrown away in an instant.
Autocratic regimes weaken themselves by restricting free speech and allowing corruption to spread.
But, judging from experience in North Africa, where education improved greatly under the old regimes, but failed to boost growth performance and create job opportunities for educated youth, the validity of such an approach as a fundamental model for development policy is dubious.
Though it is not often the case that severely repressive regimes go of their own volition or through a negotiated transfer of power, it does happen.
Yet there are compelling arguments to call a halt to the practice, inaugurated by Pinochet in 1978 and copied by military regimes in several other Latin American countries, to protect themselves by issuing amnesties for their own crimes.
In the twentieth century, China was governed by three regimes: the Qing dynasty, followed by the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, and, since 1949, the People’s Republic of China.
Curiously, many of the young democracies born after the ignominy of the right-wing military regimes of the 1970’s and 1980’s define themselves according to Cuba’s long-lasting communist dictatorship.
New combat scenarios – smaller units, higher fighting power, faster deployment – are not covered by today’s existing arms-control regimes.
Unfortunately, the existing arms-control and disarmament regimes are crumbling.
There were anxieties, too, that the increasing loss of legitimacy of Arab nationalist regimes would benefit radical Islamists - fears confirmed by Algeria's bloody civil war of the 1990's.
But the stubborn inertia of authoritarian regimes only encourages radicalization, so there is a clear need for a gradual process of liberalization.
Nor can democracy be advanced if authoritarian regimes are supported simultaneously merely because - like Saddam Hussein's Iraq - they are secular and anti-Islamist.
Popular movements have brought a range of avowedly Islamist political parties to power, replacing the largely secular former regimes.
It then spread to Egypt and Libya, ending Hosni Mubarak’s and Muammar el-Qaddafi’s even more repressive and corrupt regimes.
The people who poured into the streets and risked their lives were fed up with the repression and the poverty that these regimes caused.
There is also no guarantee that the previous elites will not be able to re-constitute similar regimes.
But it is to be hoped that the West's legal systems will provide an alternative recourse, one that will not only partially redress past injustices, but provide incentives for corporations to think twice before profiting from brutal regimes in the future.
They were also drawn into a costly and unwinnable arms race with the United States, and fell victim to imperial overreach, throwing money and resources at regimes with little strategic value and long track records of chronic economic mismanagement.
Moreover, many of these regimes are simply ineffectual and will collapse or dramatically change in the foreseeable future.
The politically correct policy of affirming each nation's right to self-determination, including the establishment of an independent state, leads to the emergence of more incompetent regimes.
Macroprudential regulation is the new term of art among central bankers, supplementing their well-established inflation-targeting regimes.
The last decade – until the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 – was known as the Great Moderation, a period of low inflation and strong growth that reflected major new developments, such as global integration of emerging markets and major central banks’ adoption of inflation-targeting regimes during the 1990’s.
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