Liberal values, however, are threatened as thoroughly by state incapacity as by despotic power.

In Myanmar, Iraq, North Korea, and Cuba, despotic regimes not only survived the imposition of sanctions, but became more despotic.

In Myanmar, Iraq, North Korea, and Cuba, despotic regimes not only survived the imposition of sanctions, but became more despotic.

Does this mean that the world should do nothing about despotic regimes?

Since then, the Kurds have suffered under the despotic rule of rival ethnic groups.

Liberal values, however, are threatened as thoroughly by state incapacity as by despotic power. All over the world, including two of its largest countries, the implications of this truth loom menacingly.

He will be remembered as an African leader of major historical significance visionary, despotic, and indispensable.

It deserves better than to be dressed up in Communist or despotic garb to block democratization.

Egyptians and Tunisians are right to be proud of their desire to peacefully overthrow despotic governments.

NEW YORK Does monarchy constitutional monarchy, that is, not the despotic kind have any redeeming features left?

Even the US must reconsider its regional policy, which has long depended on alliances with despotic Sunni rulers.

To declare unlawful what is immoral is not a big step towards the Good, it is a despotic drift.

Local power, central power, now, people power.

Indeed, a dangerous emotional discourse has emerged, reflecting and feeding the worst stereotypes of the lazy South and the despotic North.

Indeed, sanctions weaken an economy and public health, but do not necessarily make it more likely that a despotic regime will collapse. Sanctions purportedly undermine the regime by causing widespread unrest and by reducing the government's power base and tax collections.

Indeed, sanctions weaken an economy and public health, but do not necessarily make it more likely that a despotic regime will collapse.

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At roughly the same time, five prominent opposition intellectuals living in exile released a reformist, not revolutionary, manifesto directed against the despotic guardians.

But looking back on the 1970's and 1980's, the socioeconomic failures of the despotic regimes that embodied this worldview are glaringly obvious.

This bizarre brew appears to have been concocted in an effort to reconcile the irreconcilable the current yearning for democracy with Russia s despotic past.

On the subject of despotic rulers, Rouhani offered only the benign observation that they lack the ability to connect with and understand their people.

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That's the power of visual storytelling, that's the power of dance, that's the power of music the power of not knowing.

Two types of power shifts are occurring in this century power transition and power diffusion.

Beyond the survey data, history has shown that liberal ideas become more popular when a despotic monarch governs people in alliance with a religious establishment.

We will need new technologies to mobilize large scale solar power, wind power, and geothermal power.

Abuse of power is evil, but power itself is not.

That power to attract is what I call soft power.

They power how a cell replicates. They power our hearts.

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