Sentences with phrase «autocratic regimes»
"Autocratic regimes" refers to governments or systems of government where one person or a small group holds absolute power and makes decisions without the consent or input of the people. These regimes often suppress individual freedoms, limit political opposition, and concentrate authority in the hands of a single leader or ruling party. Full definition
Moreover, 64 countries did poorly in constraining government powers — which reaffirms the rising tide of autocratic regimes across the globe.»
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In recent weeks, the president's signature campaign against official corruption appears to have spilled into something more significant and potentially destabilising for the increasingly autocratic regime.
Foreign affairs committee chair Richard Ottaway told politics.co.uk earlier this month: «There are still a number of nations in the world who are very hesitant about the policy of intervention - they tend to be the more autocratic regimes like China and Russia.
This may be due to the widespread implicit assumption that Western states prefer progressive, liberal norms while autocratic regimes prefer sovereignty (and the freedom to engage in illiberal practices).
«If Government failed to intervene immediately, Akoroda's autocratic regime at CRIN will continue unabated,» one of the placards read.
As much an inquiry into the mechanics of how autocratic regimes work as it is a search for the truth about one citizen's tragic end in its clutches.
Supporters of domestic ethanol call it a cleaner - burning fuel than gasoline that offsets oil imports from autocratic regimes abroad and creates American jobs.
«You have to worry about what message that sends to more autocratic regimes around the world,» Peters says.
Lastly, we should also bear in mind those foreign policy issues on which Corbyn has been shown to be entirely correct, from being arrested for his opposition to Apartheid, (while David Cameron opposed sanctions and accepted an all - expenses paid triparound the country), to his denunciation of the Iraq War and of Blair's lies that led to it (a leader who has, by the way, been happy to consult for a host of autocratic regimes, regimes which my colleague would surely also condemn?).
In 2007, the secular democracy of Turkey cited the need to protect children from grooming and pornography and passed laws effecting government of the Internet, which by 2013 were used by an increasingly autocratic regime to destroy organised dissent which arose around the Gezi Park peaceful protests.
But she deftly distances herself from the thing she critiques, or rather, from the tangled and complex web of things she critiques, including the art market and its cosy relations with autocratic regimes, with arms traders, money laundering and dirty finance.
In the Middle East the American - Israeli project to create a zone which is economically and financially integrated Washington and Tel Aviv has met with problems despite the unconditional support of the autocratic regimes and the US Gulf protectorates (which are themselves under the military occupation of the US).
They know full well that one of the great downfalls of any autocratic regime is that it can have a stifling effect on creative thought and constructive criticism, especially when those in charge start to surround themselves with a menagerie of like - minded individuals.
In the 1990s, a wave of protest and a democratic global climate led to the fall of autocratic regimes and a series of elections across the African continent.
The geostrategic importance of the Middle East, with its immense oil wealth, has shaped the policies of colonial empires, secured the longevity of autocratic regimes and given rise to religious elites.
He ranges across continents and across democracies and autocratic regimes, concluding that collective is better than personal leadership.
Holmes Norton said she will not return, calling Issa's chairmanship an «autocratic regime.»
But not everything is lost as Thomas Risse - Kappen (1995) argues, «while democracies do not seem to be inherently more peaceful than autocratic regimes, there is nevertheless an island of peace in an ocean of conflict and wars».
Oil sands advocates have seen an opening, however, in Americans» perpetual nervousness over its reliance on oil imports from unfriendly and autocratic regimes, as well as a newly restive Middle East, and have increasingly argued for Canadian petroleum as an alternative to «conflict oil» tanked in from dodgier countries.