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Will Iran set free the people that the tyrants have enslaved and expropriated?
Democracy was the political innovation that allowed us to limit the power, whether it was of tyrants or of high priests, their natural tendency to maximize power and wealth.
A powerful movie that has recovered much of its meaning in this second half of 2007 after the new desperate movements of the Burmese people against their tyrants.
Since "Rugrats"' falling from the category of good and funny cartoon series to a mediocre and indeed outright horrible fare for two year olds in the past three or four years, obviously the tyrants at Klasky-Csupo should be out of ideas.
Yet any meager student of this era knows that the likes of Sedgewick Bell, the boy who cheats to gain favor, would have fit in just fine next to tyrants such as Augustus and Julius Caesar, who used Machiavellian cunning and force, not honor, to make their mark in history.
The series was accurate in it's depiction of a violent and bloody era and did not fall into the trap of making the Borgias raving, sex crazed psychopaths and tyrants.
But if the US meets bullets with words, tyrants will draw their own conclusions.
Whatever its outcome, Pinochet’s case demonstrates that the amnesties tyrants grant themselves provide only limited protection.
For example, we do not want to make it too easy for tyrants to drive unwanted minorities out of their country.
Tyrants everywhere – and more than a few democrats – would do well to take note.
Whether exclusion from these connections can deter would-be tyrants and their henchmen is an empirical question.
For example, Uganda's Idi Amin and Ethiopia's Haile Mariam Mengistu--deposed tyrants who rival Saddam in the scale of their criminality--have taken care not to stray from their shelters in Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe, respectively.
Among other threats, the possibility that AI systems will be hacked by malign actors, or deployed by terrorists and tyrants, now looms large.
It is also a source of vast amounts of money, much of which will end up in the tyrants’ pockets.
Of course, all seducers of the masses, potential tyrants or fanatics, have used this argument to make their case; the communists did the same when they declared themselves the most enlightened sector of the population and, by virtue of this alleged enlightenment, arrogated to themselves the right to rule arbitrarily.
Only then will Africa's tolerance for tyrants be ended.
Well-designed humanitarian intervention, as well as legal accountability for war crimes and atrocities, can send a strong signal to thugs and tyrants that they must reckon with the values that underpin international law.
Like many other tyrants, he seems ready to do anything to extend his 22 years in power, including resorting to violence and rigging elections.
But in an interconnected world, isn't it possible for the international community to do more to restrain tyrants in order to ensure a more stable global environment?
China routinely rotates the highest executive positions, as it realizes that a change of power prevents tyrants from gaining excessive power, a lesson learned painfully during Mao's long and often disastrous reign.
Corruption is limited by the frequent alternation of power, since tyrants typically need many years to build up systems of mega-corruption, usually involving family and business associates.
We have rallied against – and toppled – dictators and tyrants.
International Justice Supports National JusticeIn recent years, an emerging international system of justice has begun to undermine the old calculus of tyrants and torturers.
In any case, that developing partnership between national and international justice means that tyrants and torturers - past and future - can no longer blithely assume lifelong impunity.
In the 1930s, as Europe drifted into the hands of either tyrants or banal democratic leaders, America’s Coughlins and others were overshadowed by President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Tyrants should be tried only after they are clearly defeated.
In cases of extreme rights abuses, the chance that an international criminal tribunal will ultimately sit in judgment of those principally responsible is growing, thereby becoming a deterrent to would-be tyrants elsewhere.
The threat comes from the inside, as local tyrants seek to establish internal dominance through external conflicts and as sovereign democratic states pursue their self-interest to the detriment of the common interest.
Whether it does will depend to a large degree on how the West responds now, because what is at stake is not just the ousting of tyrants, but also the profound transformation and modernization of entire societies and economies.
But empires have crumbled; tyrants have passed away; and their executioners have fallen into the dustbins of history.
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