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Given the recent wave of uprisings, it is more evident than ever that any “reform” initiatives undertaken in the Arab world previously were aimed only at sustaining repressive dictatorships and escaping punishment for criminal abuse of power.
But his rule was also brutally repressive.
The cheap recourse to dismissive invectives such as “outside interference,” “jaundiced reporting,” and “imperial mouthpiece” – so beloved by corrupt and/or repressive regimes – is recognized as self-serving cant even by those who routinely mouth them.
Unfortunately, in repressive conditions such as those in, say, Zimbabwe, Third-World journalists tend to take their cues from the conduct of their national leaders and close ranks around the continent’s rogue elephants.
In the process, they gained credibility as trustworthy advocates of the people – a real distinction from repressive and corrupt governments.
The Middle East’s Five CrisesThe region between Egypt and Pakistan is a cauldron of five discrete, explosive components: Iraq’s civil strife, Afghanistan’s insurgency, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the longstanding Israel-Arab conflict, and the risk of clashes between extremist groups and corrupt, repressive governments.
Marijuana policy involves a choice between the evils of current repressive policies and the evils of increased use under a legal market.
Conflict is most acute in closed societies characterized by a politically repressive climate and culturally induced obstacles to growth.
For with Gorbachev's ascendance, more and more people in East Germany took heart and stopped being afraid of their repressive regime.
Their parents, still influenced by life under the repressive autocracies from which they fled, tend to be submissive to the powers that be.
Then, in the 1970s, after state-led modernization pushes had failed and governments had become increasingly repressive, education policies were infused with conservative, religious values – first in order to fight leftist opposition groups, and later to compete with Islamic groups on their own terrain.
And, as Bengali demands for autonomy gained momentum, the response became more repressive.
The popular upsurge in the Arab world shows that democratic empowerment hinges on two key internal factors: the role of security forces and the technological sophistication of the state’s repressive capacity.
Arab autocrats long relied in such tactics, often using regional conflicts for their own repressive ends.
The statement summarizes the Libyan regime’s extremely repressive response to the popular uprising against Qaddafi’s 42-year dictatorship.
With some international celebrities already keen to start a campaign to boycott the Beijing Olympics because of China’s support for some of the world’s most repressive and incompetent regimes, a military crackdown in Burma is the last thing the Chinese authorities can afford.
The expansion of special economic zones – supported by increased private investment, especially from firms that are not South Korean or Chinese – would significantly improve the odds that North Korea’s regime eases its repressive rule and embraces a program of economic reform, as China did more than three decades ago.
On the one hand, it would condemn hundreds of millions to live in repressive Iranian- or Taliban-style theocracies.
But extremists say explicitly that their anger is caused by the injustice of the global system and the repressive policies of powerful states.
Thus, the energy of tomorrow could well reinforce the world’s democracies and weaken its most repressive regimes, where most oil is to be found nowadays.
It must be clear by now that Pyongyang is determined to keep its nuclear weapons program in order to obtain a credible assurance from the US that its bizarre and repressive regime will be allowed to survive.
But this short-run fall in the price of oil should not let us lose sight of the long-term political problem; namely the fact that the major part of the present oil production is concentrated in countries governed by autocracies which use oil resources to maintain repressive patronage regimes, finance extravagant consumption by the elites, and acquire a terrifying amount of arms.
With China’s economic boom, however, the counterargument – that a repressive political system is more conducive to development – has gained currency.
But, in the face of a popular uprising in Syria, Iran has supported the brutal, repressive policies of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
After Helsinki, human-rights movements began to gain traction in repressive communist countries – starting with the Soviet Union itself – as they pressed their governments to comply with the commitments that had been made.
The fact that China’s repressive practices have not significantly impeded its rise to global superpower status has sent a dangerous message to other authoritarian regimes seeking to benefit economically from globalization without adhering to international human-rights standards.
Or will he be a repressive statist, papering over holes in a flimsy economy, not tackling big problems?
Indeed, since the Arab Spring erupted in December 2010, the BRICS have demonstrated a high regard for the principle of non-intervention – even if it means supporting the most repressive Arab regimes.
The Arab monarchies’ religious, even divine, basis of legitimacy proved sturdier than that of the Arab republics – Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia – where secular governments’ reliance on rigged elections and a repressive state apparatus eroded their authority.
The damage caused by such repressive and restrictive laws is well documented, including, for example, an increased risk of HIV transmission among gay men.
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