33. quot Judicial despotism and the development of Nigerian law quot .

The evils most deeply resented in all societies are injustice, despotism, corruption, and poverty.

After 1989, human rights were understood as a universal code to tame state despotism.

Of course, elections that lead to illiberal outcomes, and even to despotism, are not a new phenomenon.

Once again, this results from a combination of North Korea's political despotism, atrocious economic policy, and international sanctions.

Drug trafficking or other illegal activities can overtake the whole government, turning it from despotism to international organized crime.

This explains why French governments of both right and left tend to support despotism in countries where it seems natural.

Russia, after a brief attempt at democracy under Boris Yeltsin, has reverted to a form of unenlightened despotism under Vladimir Putin.

A strong current of liberalism appeared in the late nineteenth century in Ottoman Syria in response to the religious despotism of Sultan Abdulhamid.

The regime s true ambition is to invent an alternative to Western democracy an enlightened despotism under the tutelage of a meritocratic Communist Party.

Privately owned newspapers, independent radio and television networks, trade unions, churches, professional societies, and other groups within civil society provide a bulwark against despotism.

Following de Gaulle s lead, elective monarchy or enlightened despotism is now perceived as a legitimate alternative to parliamentary democracy or US style separation of powers.

Arab men and women have shed the sense of humiliation and inferiority that despotism imposed on them and that fostered desperation, anger, violence, and insularity.

Following de Gaulle s lead, elective monarchy or enlightened despotism is now perceived as a legitimate alternative to parliamentary democracy or US style separation of powers.

By strengthening civil society through legal rights and long term economic development and instituting clear rules to ensure accountability, political despotism and corruption will be brought under control.

But what do one billion people living in utter poverty (300 million on less than one dollar a day) and deprived of any rights think of this enlightened despotism?

In the dissertation titled O Mandonismo do Sertão (The Despotism of the Sertão), author Luis Carlos Mendes Santiago describes various methods and ceremonies for closing one's body in the Sertão.

We in the West may badly need Russia s energy, but if Russia does not want its future to degenerate into Oriental despotism, it must engage with the West in good faith.

Although Russia s future is uncertain, its history is becoming clearer, in part because we now know that the Twentieth Party Congress started the process that brought about the end of Soviet despotism.

The philosophers who were the intellectual fathers of the 1789 revolution longed not for democracy, but for enlightened despotism, which is what many French still look for when they elect a president.

Its preamble, which opens with the phrase We, the Egyptian people, can be read as a scathing attack on Egypt s current political order, and calls for an end to fear and despotism.

Of course, elections that lead to illiberal outcomes, and even to despotism, are not a new phenomenon. Hitler, after all, came to power in Germany in 1933 through a free, fair, and competitive election.

This authority, the technocrats claim, in turn is part of a system of national and supra national checks and balances which, while not resembling a national democracy, would reliably prevent despotism from taking root in Brussels.

The fact that people in several African countries appear to be worse off now than in 1960 is far more related to despotism and internal conflict than it is to the effectiveness of aid delivery programs.

What do you do when your big neighbor widens the gap that exists between its culture, which is European, and its political system, which is becoming increasingly Asian, at least in the bad old sense of Oriental despotism ?

What do you do when your big neighbor widens the gap that exists between its culture, which is European, and its political system, which is becoming increasingly Asian, at least in the bad old sense of Oriental despotism ?

Most of Latin America, except for Brazil and Chile, are elective monarchies, a modernized version of the old caudillo tradition. Russia, after a brief attempt at democracy under Boris Yeltsin, has reverted to a form of unenlightened despotism under Vladimir Putin.

Many countries under sanction, such as Myanmar, become sources of global illegal trafficking in drugs, arms, money laundering, and forced labor. Drug trafficking or other illegal activities can overtake the whole government, turning it from despotism to international organized crime.

After 1989, human rights were understood as a universal code to tame state despotism. It is my belief, however, that human rights cannot be used as a universal idea for resolving ethnic conflicts unless the concept obtains a clear cut and expanded definition, which includes ethnic and minority rights.