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Dictator's daughter seeks the Blue House
South Korea :: South Korea | 11 months ago
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If she does make it to the president's office, no one is sure what kind of leader she'd be, and the fact of her gender isn't having the type of political echoes one might expect. In her announcement speech, Park made the kind of fluffy political
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Russia threatens to veto US-backed UN resolution against Syria
Russia has stood with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from the day one of the uprising. The country’s deputy United Nations ambassador, Igor Pankin, said on Thursday that Russia couldn't support a United States-backed United Nations
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21st Century Dictators Take Cues From Activists to Hold on to Power
Moscow :: Russia | 11 months ago
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July 11, 2012 It's never been harder to be a dictator, says at least one analyst. Faced with rapid demographic growth, massive increases in unemployment for college graduates, and changes in the information environment, modern authoritarian regimes
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The Dictator's Learning Curve
Boston :: MA :: USA | 11 months ago
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In William Dobson's case, he traveled 93,268 miles and collected 200 interviews to back up his big idea: that dictators today are more nimble about being autocratic than their predecessors.
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VIDEO: Learning curve: How authoritarian regimes adapt
Moscow :: Russia | 11 months ago
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How authoritarian regimes adapt 4 July 2012 Last updated at 19:44 ET Author and journalist William Dobson travelled some 93,000 miles (150,000km) over two years, researching what makes authoritarian regimes tick. Gone are the days of Stalin-esque
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Saving the Titanic
Cairo :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
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The euphoria of victory is mixed with some fears of what comes next in a country where protest and great expectations reign. The post-revolution conduct of policy was a comedy of errors...Like the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) of the 1952
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Egyptian Farmers Make Themselves Heard
Cairo :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
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Even as the struggle for control of Egypt's future has played out in Cairo between the military power brokers and the Muslim Brotherhood, a parallel struggle has been playing out in the farm belt between dispossessed peasants and cronies of the old
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Half of German teens 'unsure Hitler a dictator'
Berlin :: Germany | 11 months ago
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About half of young Germans are unsure whether the Nazi state was a dictatorship and even more are not sure whether the socialist East German regime was one, a new study shows. The widespread ignorance is described in a study called, Late Victory of
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Egypt: Unrestrained Army Powers Threat to Human Rights
Cairo :: Egypt | 11 months ago
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Unless these powers are curtailed, the organization has warned, the military will be able to continue to trample on human rights with impunity. Egypt's Constitutional Declaration, issued in March last year, gave the army the power to rule until
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Hosni Mubarak's different states of health as reported but his death not confirmed: An observation
Hosni Muburak’s different states of health but his death not confirmed: An observation By &
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