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By contrast, authoritarian regimes’
repression
of civilians, and their non-differentiation between civilians and killers, provides extremists with fertile recruiting conditions by discrediting the government in the eyes of a significant part of its population.
The response to terrorism should be to reaffirm the value of the rule of law over arbitrary repression, and of the diversity that is the hallmark of Europe’s cities, particularly London and Paris, but increasingly many others across the Union.
In the short term, the iron-fisted Naif, as Crown Prince, will push the Kingdom into greater repression, in part by strengthening the hardline Wahhabi clerics’ place in the country’s power nexus.
Instead, modern and pre-modern forms will prevail: support for government repression, like Russia has provided in Syria, or ethno-religious proxy wars, like those that Saudi Arabia and Iran have waged across the Middle East.
The combination of corruption, inequality, and political
repression
builds up enormous pressure, and there are no institutional channels through which to release it.
Some governments have reacted to recent events with political repression, information blackouts, or a combination of authoritarian measures.
Indeed, while the demands of millenarians can never be met, thus leaving
repression
as the only means to deal with them, nationalism may be (and often is) effectively addressed through political means: when the legitimate and more widely shared nationalist goals are met, the radical fringe often loses its wider appeal and withers away.
Failure to recognize this works to the advantage of religiously motivated terrorists because all the energy spent on fighting terrorism is spent on repression, leaving legitimate nationalist goals unaddressed and strengthening popular support for terrorism of all kinds.
While it is too soon to assess the opening’s impact in terms of reducing repression, the opportunity it presents for Cubans to engage with Americans – first family to family, then business to business – is significant.
Having more time, they are using the less visible, and much more gradual, path of “financial repression,” under which interest rates are forced down so that creditors, including those on modest fixed incomes, subsidize debtors.
China’s Hidden DemocratizationSHANGHAI – Since Xi Jinping was anointed as China’s new president, reports of official
repression
of dissent have hardly abated.
If the Chinese Communist Party feels threatened by a public frustrated with insufficient political participation and enduring social repression, it could slip into competitive nationalism, upending the already-delicate regional status quo.
All of this could make new savers happy, as returns on savings – which have been subject to severe financial
repression
for most of the last decade – begin to rise.
In Syria, on the other hand, the revolution has not yet come to fruition, owing to the regime’s brutal
repression
of its opponents.
Putin’s regime is based on rule by force, manifested in
repression
at home and aggression abroad.
The Arab World’s Triple CrisisLONDON – Economic want and inequality, as much as political repression, incited the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions.
The Return of RepressionBERLIN – Governments around the world are taking draconian steps to suppress civil-society organizations, with measures ranging from restrictive laws and bureaucratic burdens to smear campaigns, censorship, and outright
repression
by intelligence agencies or police.
Of course, governments cite all sorts of reasons, security concerns such as those relating to terrorism now being at the top of the list, to justify the
repression
of NGOs and other civil society groups.
Denial, the last bastion of those who commit genocide, disrespects the victims and their communities and lays a foundation of lies for a future that is likely to be characterized by even more conflict and
repression.
Indeed, as political leaders choose military
repression
over engagement, they will increasingly lose ground to groups like the Islamic State, the only entities in the region offering a clear – albeit brutal, and regressive – vision of the future.
He spoke against the
repression
of Serbs and broke with Tudjman over Croatia's aggression in Bosnia.
Throughout history, other measures, including debt rescheduling, inflation, and various forms of wealth taxation (such as financial repression), have typically played a significant role.
Dreaded secret-police chief Lavrenti Beria, who operated the machinery of
repression
under Joseph Stalin, was executed by the system he perfected, after being sentenced to death in 1953 for “spying against the state.”
Unforeseen uprisings are possible wherever
repression
keeps people from expressing their political preferences openly.
They will consider both easing repression, in order to gain sympathy, and tightening it, in order to prevent uncontrollable protests.
Years later, what’s at stake is not just punishment, but also political truth, which requires setting limits on official rationales for
repression.
But, having already deployed political repression, censorship, and propaganda, Putin’s tools for maintaining control as Russians’ living standards decline will be limited.
The prohibitionist approach, based on
repression
of production and criminalization of consumption, has clearly failed.
Several countries are pursuing policies that emphasize prevention and treatment rather than
repression
– and refocusing their repressive measures on fighting the real enemy: organized crime.
When the policy approach shifts from criminal
repression
to public health, drug users are more open to seeking treatment.
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