dictatorship

Dictatorships and democracies alike seem to be dismissive of American leadership.

One of the great things about World War II airplanes, beyond their role in bringing down two savage dictatorships, was the nose art.

Corruption, she said, was all too often seen as an issue which affected only war-torn states and tinpot dictatorships.

America has supported dictatorships or corrupt regimes around the world when it was in her favor as long as I folllow politics.

Kuran argued that under such dictatorships, citizens are required to act in public as if they are content with the status quo.

Until the coup, Thailand seemed to be escaping its historic cycle of alternating military dictatorships and weak civilian rule.

Who was an enthusiastic and uncritical guest of the dictatorships of Haiti and Albania, and the phalangists in Lebanon ?

Turkey has also become an economic power and its government, unlike the dictatorships elsewhere in the Middle East, is now democratic.

It is no accident that the twentieth century should be the century of highly centralized governments and totalitarian dictatorships.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Yes, a free-market does well in politically free countries, but it has also thrived under dictatorships.

Dictatorships might be reimposed, democracy won't work, ethnic conflict will turn into ethnic violence.

And dictatorships are unlikely to be better than democracies.

The free exercise of these rights is what separates, in many cases, democracies from dictatorships.

Others still hold that Western powers, chiefly America, have sustained Arab dictatorships to secure the flow of oil.

You are people who have succeeded in upending the power of longstanding dictatorships through the power of new tools.

But more peacefully oriented dictatorships can have a good amount of economic freedom that doesn't translate into a political one.

In Kirkpatrick's view, dictatorships could be classified either as authoritarian or totalitarian, and the difference mattered.

There are several other Middle Eastern countries where secular dictatorships provide minorities with a protection of sorts.

Dictatorships often falter when people recognize that freedom and prosperity prevail among their neighbors, while they enjoy neither.

We're talking about democracies in Europe, dictatorships across much of North Africa.

and, as the Asian financial crisis a decade ago showed, dictatorships are often worse at distributing pain.

There the Catholic church, buttressed by military dictatorships, kept "strong family" traditions alive.

I've argued that universities that take money from dictatorships should receive a reduction in their public subsidy.

Greece, Spain and Portugal were brought in after the fall of their dictatorships; Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.

Whereas dictatorships deny human rights, free societies continually strive to attain them.

Third, unlike many other dictatorships, Myanmar has held an election, and lost it comprehensively.

As in the dictatorships of the past, governments are targeting independent thinkers who use these tools.

Until the late 1980s they too were dictatorships. Their regimes, facing rising dissent, saw the writing on the wall and democratised.

Jeane Kirkpatrick was right years ago to make the distinction between authoritarian dictatorships and totalitarian ones.

These two are extreme cases of totalitarian communist dictatorships.

His goal: overthrow the Muslim world's western-backed dictatorships and drive the US from the region.

Political dissidents were sent there under the military dictatorships of Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega.

Several de facto dictatorships also have compulsory, but not free and fair, voting in order to try to increase the legitimacy of the regime.

Education and class stratification also lead to the military dictatorships of Indonesia.

We tend to think that somehow this is going to harm these dictatorships, but in many cases it only strengthens them.

These leaflets questioned the claims and intentions of dictatorships in the Eastern Bloc, and many people paid dearly for distributing them.

In dictatorships that use history as one more tool to maintain power, there's no such hope.

In fact in many of them voting was a sham, and dictatorships existed that served themselves by denying the people their entitlement.

Communist China would sell anybody an H-bomb if they could be sure it wouldn't end up blowing up inside China. Dictatorships are like that.

It is surely wiser to subsidise nuclear plants in Britain, than dictatorships in the Gulf.

The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Countries such as Burma and North Korea are marked by dictatorships and rigid, command economies.

This is what brought about the end of dictatorships in the Philippines, Zaire and Iran.

I am convinced as more dictatorships and other autocracies become more capitalist they will become more democratic.

Of course, A developed mental dictatorships is what we believe it is. Am I wrong?

I think the lesson is that many people go on holiday to dictatorships, or places where people are starving.

He says we cannot know what is happening inside dictatorships.

War-centric dictatorships tend to have a centralized economy because it is very efficient for war production.