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• in Politics
  A Disturbing Trend: China, Sudan, North Korea, and Iran
  On Wednesday, China filed an official claim demanding that the international community immediately lift sanctions on Sudan. Is this simply a thoughtful gesture or part of a disturbing trend concerning international commerce?
  by mgregory85 / on Jul 16, 2011
• in Social Media
  Social Media Powers Egyptian Victory
  Social media sites fuel uprising in Egypt. Finally, the masses have a strong voice that can topple dictatorships.
  by motherstonic / on Feb 11, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “dictatorships”

 

• A Case Study on Making Autocracy Work

  
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  A Case Study about Making Autocracy Work Abstract : One of the key goals of political economy is to understand how institutional arrangements shape policy outcomes. This paper studies a comparatively neglected aspect of this – the forces that shape heterogeneous performance of autocracies. The paper develops a ...
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• Death threats force ‘Iran’s Lech Walesa’ into exile

  
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  Death threats from government security services have forced Iran’s most prominent labor union leader into exile. Mansur Osanlu, the head of the Tehran bus workers’ union, told RFE/RL’s Golnaz Esfandiari that the Islamic republic is becoming more repressive “day by …
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• Khamenei adviser enters Iran’s presidential contest – voters left to choose ‘the least worst of the bad’

  
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    “An adviser to Iran ‘s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei joined the presidential race on Friday, with powerful conservatives keen to make the June vote a peaceful contrast to the upheaval that followed the disputed 2009 poll,” Reuters reports …
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• Syria: intervene, push for elections, or stabilize and disarm?

  
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  “The use of chemical weapons in Syria has increased pressure on President Obama to arm the opposition,” says Zalmay Khalilzad (right), a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Iraq and Afghanistan. “Earlier in the conflict, I endorsed such a …
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• No Chávismo after Chávez – a blow to Cuba

  
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  With the death of Hugo Chávez, Chávismo has lost its supremacy in Venezuela, writes analyst Raúl Lotitto It does not matter that so-called Chávistas still control parliament , 17 of 23 provincial governments, and all key state institutions, including the …
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• China’s cyber-attacks target USG – and dissidents

  
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  The Obama administration has for the first time explicitly blamed the Chinese military for launching cyber-attacks on the U.S government and various defense contractors. The cyber-attacks are a “ serious concern ” as U.S. computer systems “continued to be targeted …
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• Syria conflict ‘metastasizing’ into ‘existential’ proxy war

  
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    For the Obama administration, “the costs of inaction have started to outweigh the costs of action”, says a leading analyst, warning that Syria ’s civil war is “metastasizing” into a wider regional conflict. “It is spreading to other states …
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• Democracy ‘at a standstill’ – but eroding in European heartland

  
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  The global democratic regression has stalled and some of the world’s most authoritarian regions have registered significant gains over the past year, but “the overall pace of democratic change remained stagnant” during 2012, according to a new survey. The democracy …
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• Syria’s ‘red line’ and the Middle East’s ‘New Map’

  
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    Britain, France and Israel all believe the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has crossed President Barack Obama’s “red line” and used chemical weapons against rebels in the country’s civil war. But the administration has yet to be unconvinced …
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• Jon Stewart’s new ‘Daily Show’: Censorship and Power in Iran

  
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  Screening & Discussion Maziar Bahari , Journalist and Filmmaker Joel Simon , Committee to Protect Journalists in conversation with Jon Stewart, Political Satirist As Iran nears elections in June , the government has launched renewed assaults on the media with …
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• Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China – the Bo Xilai affair

  
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  A new book on the Bo Xilai affair “provides remarkable insight into the vicious culture of court politics in today’s China,” says a leading analyst. “Recent power struggles in China have generated torrents of leaks and rumors,” writes Columbia University’s …
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• With open dissent and repression on the rise, Vietnam’s one-party rule shaken

  
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  “His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, 77, says he is no longer a believer,” The New York …
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• ‘China Dream’ needs clearer vision & substance

  
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  While Western commentators have lauded China’s model of authoritarian development – even advocating its transferability to other developing economies – President Xi Jinping isn’t so enthusiastic. “ China’s model of development is not sustainable ,” he said this month. But …
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• Bad news for Cuba in Venezuela vote: end of subsidies ‘could trigger social upheaval’

  
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  Venezuela’s disputed poll result is bad news for Cuba’s Communist regime, which relied on former leader Hugo Chavez for hard currency and an annual supply of $6bn of subsidized oil. The end of chavista subsidies could trigger “social upheaval” on …
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• Varieties of sultanism and the ‘Arab Spring’

  
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  More than twenty-five years after the ‘third wave’ of democratic transitions from authoritarian rule in South America, and Southern and Post-Communist Europe, two leading democracy analysts assess what new perspectives are needed in light of the recent upheavals in the …
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• Bill O’Reilly: Constitutionally ignorant

  
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  Thursday night, I was flipping through the channels at about 10:30. Lou Dobbs was discussing gun violence with Bill O’Reilly so I thought I’d take a moment to hear what they’d have to say. O’Reilly said that background checks were good but that it was necessary for legal gun owners to register guns. Then he ...
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