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(Until then, Assad was considered in the US media to be a relatively benign, albeit authoritarian, ruler, and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton noted as late as March 2011 that many in the US Congress regarded Assad as a reformer.)
So Saudi Arabia’s people confront this key question: can an authoritative ruler emerge who will reunite the country in the progressive tradition of the late King Faisal?
German politicians would do well to recall the words of another Kremlin ruler: “These capitalists,” Lenin reputedly said, “will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Although Abdullah is usually referred to in the West as Saudi Arabia’s ruler, the debilitated King Fahd’s six full brothers are the ones who truly represent the real power in the Kingdom.
Dissent, should it arise, must always take the form of well-intentioned advice given to the ruler in a private setting.
The article was wrong, because Hong Kong's deepest wounds have not come from China's ruler, but are self-inflicted.
Even a ruler whose mandate comes from heaven should heed the words of the Confucian sage Mencius: “Heaven sees with the eyes of its people.
Putin is not seen as the bad guy, he is seen as a Russian ruler disciplining a dubious business-political interest.
In this story, that moment comes with the emergence of Donaldo Trumpi as the ruler of Venice.
But no one, Democrat or Republican, has a plausible plan either for ending the war in Syria or even for helping Syrian civilians in significant numbers, other than making it risky for Syria’s ruler, Bashar al-Assad, to use chemical weapons too blatantly.
The Trump-Xi Strategic Face-OffSINGAPORE – In ancient times, Chinese emperors never traveled to another country to meet its new ruler.
Rather, that ruler, or his envoy, would visit China’s imperial capital to request investiture from the Son of Heaven.
And though the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo is the most democratic and the least corrupt Nigeria has known since independence (including a period in the late 1970s when General Obasanjo was the country's military ruler until he stepped aside voluntarily to permit election of a civilian president), the country remains dangerously weak.
But that raises an obvious question: How did a person who once looked like Russia’s most modern and dependable ruler since Czar Alexander II – a man whom US President George W. Bush called “very straightforward and trustworthy” in 2001 – suddenly become crazier than Rasputin?
The system carries the hallmarks of the ancient feudal model described by Harvard’s Richard Pipes in his classic Russia under the Old Regime: it affords a maximum of freedom to the ruler, who delegates tasks to the feudal lords.
Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that, by hook or by crook, Putin will spend six more years as Russia’s ruler.
It is the tool of governments that are, in fact, the enemy of their people, for it benefits only the ruler – never the victim, whose pain is magnified by neglect.
Prince Muhammad has also established a rehabilitation program that seeks to de-program the jihadis from their radical beliefs through a course of study that teaches that Islam requires obedience to a Muslim ruler.
Repentant jihadis are taught that violence undertaken by individuals – not by the legitimate ruler – is sinful and will be punished by God.
In fact, he has been Italy’s true ruler for the past 13 years.
Almost every Arab ruler at one time or another attempted to silence the station by closing its local bureau and pressing the Qatari rulers to muzzle its freewheeling journalists.
Confucianism was essentially a philosophical justification of government by benevolent bureaucracy under a virtuous ruler.
As one Confucian classic put it: Possessing virtue will give the ruler the people.
Her decision is an explicit recognition that the country can no longer do business with North Korea’s murderous, Caligula-like ruler.
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.”
The Gulf War at 20NEW YORK – It was 20 years ago this month that Saddam Hussein, then the unchallenged ruler of Iraq, invaded Kuwait.
On the other hand, there is no assurance that the right policies would be maintained if power once again passed to a military ruler.
One study of the 1,941 rulers of independent countries during the twentieth century found only 27 women, roughly half of whom came to power as widows or daughters of a male ruler.
The Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir – a Muslim-majority state with a Hindu ruler – dithered over which of the two to join, and flirted with the idea of remaining independent.
Prime Minister Hun Sen, East Asia’s longest-serving non-royal ruler, has used his power to silence critics and close outspoken media outlets, including one independent newspaper, the Cambodia Daily.The CPP has also expelled the National Democratic Institute, a US-based nonprofit that focuses on rights and democracy, and detained political challengers.
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