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In this kind of politics, rulers are insulated from democratic accountability by a panoply of restraints that limit the range of policies they can deliver.
Similar warnings have been repeated over and over by oppressive rulers in the Middle East, not least by Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak: either the secular police state or the Islamists; either Mubarak or the Muslim Brotherhood.
Religious organizations can mobilize people in opposition to corrupt, oppressive rulers.
With its establishment, resulting from long and terrible experience, the basic idea of modernity – that the power of states and their rulers should be subject to the rule of higher law, thus placing individual rights above state sovereignty – has taken a great step forward.
That is a point that will not be lost on China’s rulers.
Korean rulers only managed to survive by playing one foreign power off against the other, and by offering subservience, mainly to Chinese emperors, in exchange for protection.
In fact, Kim Il-sung and his son, Kim Jong-il, were typical Korean rulers.
If Ukrainians do give these politicians-bearing-gifts their votes, they may continue to receive gifts at the next election, but meanwhile the rulers will keep ruining the country and crippling our souls.
(Burundi is an aid-dependent country, so donors have considerable sway in influencing its rulers' behavior.)
It is possible that the new economic and political context will lead Iran’s rulers to accept what they have rebuffed until now.
Amateur historians ask breathlessly whether this could be the year of decisive change in the Middle East, the year when regime after regime falls prey to rising discontent with authoritarian rulers who have failed to deliver decent lives to their people.
Nevertheless, for Arab rulers looking uneasily at the lessons of events in Tunisia and Egypt, the example of India might be well worth heeding.
Given that Islamic fundamentalism breeds in economic despair, Libya’s rulers seem to want to take particular care that this process does not create an underclass of victims who might fall prey to the call of religious fanatics.
But the current rulers, if reelected, may shift policies.
The US would certainly like Pakistan to eliminate the leadership of the Taliban, both Afghan and Pakistani, but will not lean too heavily on Pakistan’s rulers to accomplish this goal.
Others may minimize the threats Saudi Arabia faces, but the Kingdom’s rulers know better.
They see what Iran has done to Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, and they hear what Iran and its allies say in their local media (never for Western consumption) about their hostile intentions toward the Kingdom and its rulers.
Fear of the Russian state’s disintegration, a legacy of empire, is never far from its rulers’ thoughts.
In fact, savvy autocratic rulers favor less talented successors, because they are easier to groom and control on their way to power.
As each preceding generation of rulers cashes in its illicit gains from holding power, the successors are motivated by both the desire to loot even more and the fear that there may not be much left by the time they get their turn at the trough.
They tend to cherry-pick quotations that support their own grip on power, stressing such “traditional” virtues as obedience to authority, neglecting to mention that Confucian thought upholds the right to rebel against unjust rulers.
It is also possible that China’s current rulers, whose families have grown rich through political favors, are convinced students of Confucian philosophy.
Of course, much of this is intended for domestic consumption – a way to mobilize public opinion behind authoritarian rulers.
So far, China’s rulers have regarded emerging strategic competition with India, Japan, Russia, and the United States as a jostling for influence in Central and South Asia.
To be sure, Thailand’s military rulers do not reject responsiveness to public demands or deny the imperatives of adapting to globalization.
Denial remains the Saudi rulers’ dominant mindset.
As China attempts to tighten its grip on Hong Kong, Li is showing independence, and China’s new rulers – who, true to their communist roots, believe firmly in top-down control – do not like it one bit.
Indeed, even as China’s agenda in Hong Kong has become increasingly tough – and thus unpopular locally – Leung has proved himself to be absolutely loyal to China’s rulers.
But now, China’s rulers, through Leung, are pushing potentially disastrous policies aimed, in Chinese Communist Party parlance, at “de-colonizing” Hong Kong.
Russia's first rulers were Nordic princes in the 860's, men invited to bring order to the country - even then, or so it seems, Russians didn't trust themselves to rule themselves effectively.
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