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1. Files detail bid to contain fallout from Tulsi Gabbard meetings with Assad

Author

Swaine, Jon and Nakashima, Ellen

Subjects
Legislators -- Powers and duties, Dictators -- Powers and duties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Jon Swaine, Ellen Nakashima Staffers for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard were wrestling with a question: Had she really met with the authoritarian leader of Syria for almost three hours? It [...]

Published
2025

2. How this Montreal MP fled Pinochet's rule; Tourism Minister Soraya Martinez Ferrada was only 8 when she and her mother escaped the Chilean dictatorship

Author

Woolf, Marie

Subjects
Refugees -- Social aspects, Cabinet officers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Dictatorship -- Social aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: MARIE WOOLF; Staff OTTAWA -- Tourism Minister Soraya Martinez Ferrada carries a photograph of her late grandfather, along with his favourite handkerchief, in her handbag everywhere she goes. Choking [...]

Published
2024

3. Struggling for Justice in Romania, Decades After Revolution

Author

Higgins, Andrew

Subjects
Political violence -- History -- Casualties, Human rights -- History, Dictatorship -- History, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Justice, Administration of -- Forecasts and trends -- Romania, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

People struggling for justice for family members killed in the 1989 uprising say that servants of the Ceausescu regime have blocked any reckoning with the past. After attending a ceremony [...]

Published
2023

4. THE NORTH KOREAN AUTOCRACY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Author

Song, Wonjun and Wright, Joseph

Subjects
North Korea. Korean People's Army -- Control, Dictatorship -- Comparative analysis, Communist countries -- Comparative analysis, Personalism -- Analysis, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Regional focus/area studies, Social sciences, Workers' Party of Korea -- Powers and duties
Abstract

Abstract The North Korean regime is unique among dictatorships because it is both long-lasting and highly personalized. We argue that initial factionalization of the regime, coupled with the presence of [...]

Published
2018
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5. Chilean poet may have been poisoned after Pinochet coup, DNA shows

Author

Semeniuk, Ivan

Subjects
Powers and duties, Death of, Genetic aspects, History, Methods, Investigations, Company legal issue, DNA identification -- Methods, Poets -- Death of -- Genetic aspects, Poisoning -- Investigations -- Genetic aspects -- History, Coups d'etat -- History, Dictators -- Powers and duties, DNA testing -- Methods
Published
2023

6. Walls of silence; Online censorship

Subjects
Censorship -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Freedom of expression -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Social aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Online social networks -- Usage -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Censorship issue, Business, Economics, Business, international
Abstract

Autocrats are finding new ways to squash free expression online O N OCTOBER 8TH two journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, won the Nobel peace prize for their 'efforts to [...]

Published
2021

7. A law to fight Franco; Spanish history

Subjects
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Casualties, Spanish history, 1939- -- Political aspects, Coalition governments -- Political activity, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Historical revisionism -- Laws, regulations and rules, Collective memory -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Government regulation, Business, Economics, Business, international
Abstract

Part of history too The government seeks to dig up the past. Will it bring harmony to the present? WHEN DEMOCRACY came to Spain in the late 1970s, it arrived [...]

Published
2020

8. Soviet-style brutality lives again

Author

Radchenko, Sergey

Subjects
Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022-, Political persecution -- History, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Presidents -- Powers and duties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Political science
Abstract

Among the many Russians who have protested against the war in Ukraine was 26-year-old Muscovite Aleksandra Kaluzhskikh, who was arrested earlier this month. She managed to record her interrogation while [...]

Published
2022

9. HITLER INVADES CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Author

Ibbitson, John

Subjects
Czechoslovakia -- History, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Military maneuvers -- Political aspects -- History, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: JOHN IBBITSON; Staff Six months earlier, when Adolf Hitler demanded that Czechoslovakia surrender the Sudetenland to Germany, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain had wondered why Britain should be forced [...]

Published
2022

10. A 'sick joke': Tigrayan forces reject ceasefire in Ethiopia's embattled region

Subjects
Tigray, Ethiopia -- Military aspects, Western Canada -- Environmental aspects, North Korea -- Safety and security measures, Ethiopia. National Defense Force -- Powers and duties, Tigre People's Liberation Front -- Military aspects, Control, Military aspects, Powers and duties, Distribution, Political aspects, Casualties, Safety and security measures, Environmental aspects, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Company distribution practices, Epidemics -- Political aspects -- Ethiopia, Armistices -- Political aspects, Low intensity conflicts -- Forecasts and trends, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Extreme weather -- Forecasts and trends -- Casualties, COVID-19 -- Distribution -- Control -- Political aspects, Hot weather -- Forecasts and trends -- Casualties, Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- Forecasts and trends
Abstract

Top of The World -- our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. (http://theworld.org/newsletters) Subscribe here . Tigray conflict The government of Ethiopia has said it could re-enter [...]

Published
2021

11. Target: Freiburg: when three Luftwaffe aircraft accidentally bombed the German City in May 1940, Hitler blamed the allies, but the real horror was yet to come

Author

Zabecki, David T.

Subjects
Freiburg, Germany -- Military aspects, Bombing, Aerial -- Casualties, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Propaganda, German -- Military aspects, Aerospace and defense industries, History
Abstract

FREIBURG IM BREISGAU HAS THE UNENVIABLE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE FIRST GERMAN CITY BOMBED FROM THE AIR IN BOTH WORLD WARS. Nestled against the foothills of the Black Forest, and [...]

Published
2016

12. Venezuela's political quarantine; Bello

Subjects
Venezuela -- Safety and security measures, Venezuela -- Health policy, Control, Powers and duties, Distribution, Health policy, Political aspects, Safety and security measures, Health aspects, Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Company distribution practices, Quarantine -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects -- Health aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, COVID-19 -- Control -- Distribution
Abstract

The virus ought to favour a deal between the regime and the opposition AS IF IT were needed, coronavirus is a cruel reminder that the man who holds all the [...]

Published
2020

13. North Korea's Kim calls food situation 'tense' as reports of shortages mount

Author

Denyer, Simon

Subjects
Dictators -- Powers and duties, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called the country's food situation 'tense,' state media reported Wednesday, amid mounting reports of shortages. Opening a plenary [...]

Published
2021

15. The U.S. can't topple Venezuela's regime, but it could change its behavior

Author

Toro, Francisco

Subjects
Dictators -- Powers and duties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Francisco Toro For Print Use Only. The Biden administration has inherited a thoroughly failed Venezuela policy. The dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro came into 2021 fully consolidated, albeit atop a [...]

Published
2021

16. Pre-Nazi Germany tells us the fight to save American democracy is just beginning

Author

Brenner, Michael

Subjects
Beer Hall Putsch, 1923 -- History, Dictators -- Powers and duties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Michael Brenner A mob of several thousand outraged people rampaged through the streets of the city after a long rambling speech by their leader inciting them to do so. [...]

Published
2021

17. To invest or insure? How authoritarian time horizons impact foreign aid effectiveness

Author

Wright, Joseph

Subjects
Foreign assistance -- Usage, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Government, International relations, Political science
Abstract

In this article, the author argues that the time horizon a dictator faces affects his incentives over the use of aid in three ways. First, dictators have a greater incentive to invest in public goods when they have a long time horizon. Second, dictators with short time horizons often face the threat of challengers to the regime; this leads them to forgo investment and instead consume state resources in two forms that harm growth: repression and private pay-offs to political opponents. Third, dictators with short time horizons have a strong incentive to secure personal wealth as a form of insurance in case the regime falls. Using panel data on dictatorships in 71 developing countries from 1961 to 2001, the author finds that time horizons have a positive impact on aid effectiveness: Foreign aid is associated with positive growth when dictators face long time horizons and negative growth when time horizons are short. Keywords: foreign aid; dictatorships; growth; time horizons

Published
2008

18. Escaping tyranny in their home country, many Belarusians have fled to Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania

Subjects
Belarus -- Political aspects -- Emigration and immigration, Despotism -- Forecasts and trends, Murder -- Investigations, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Company legal issue, Market trend/market analysis, Political science
Abstract

Escaping tyranny in their home country, many Belarusians have fled to Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania. One such was Vitaly Shishov, who led an organization called 'Belarusian House in Ukraine.' Its [...]

Published
2021

19. A modest post-Assad plan

Author

Byman, Daniel and Miles, Renanah

Subjects
Syrian Uprising, 2011-, Civil war -- Syria -- United States, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Government, Resistance to, Democracy -- Social aspects, International relations, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Abstract

Should Syrian president Bashar al-Assad fall, Syria's problems will have only just begun. With the dictator gone, crime, score settling and a violent contest for power likely will ensue, keeping [...]

Published
2012

20. Libya: where will the chips fall?

Author

Darwish, Adel

Subjects
Libya -- Political aspects, Democratic deficit -- Causes of -- Political aspects, Postwar reconstruction -- Political aspects -- Economic aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Business, Business, international, News, opinion and commentary, Social sciences
Abstract

As the Libyan revolutionaries surprised even themselves by their speedy advance into Tripoli, toppling the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi vintage 1969, too many Cassandras to count were shouting from [...]

Published
2011

21. Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is a brazen dictator. He thinks nothing of cracking heads in the streets, and he thinks nothing of hijacking airplanes

Subjects
Belarus -- Political aspects -- Military policy, Ryanair Flight 4978 Hijacking, 2021 -- Political aspects, Journalists -- Political activity -- Travel, Hijacking of aircraft -- Political aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Political science
Abstract

* Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus is a brazen dictator. He thinks nothing of cracking heads in the streets, and he thinks nothing of hijacking airplanes. On his orders, Belarusian agents [...]

Published
2021

22. Peace Games

Author

Osnos, Evan

Subjects
Winter Olympics -- Political aspects -- 2018 AD, Presidents (Government) -- Powers and duties, United States foreign relations, South Korean foreign relations, North Korean foreign relations, Dictators -- Powers and duties, General interest, Literature/writing, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Evan Osnos Peace Games An enduring bromide about the Olympic Games holds that they provide a respite from politics. That has been a fiction since at least 424 B.C., [...]

Published
2018

23. Dictators are using the coronavirus to strengthen their grip on power

Author

Kurlantzick, Joshua

Subjects
Epidemics -- Political aspects -- Control -- International aspects -- United States, War and emergency powers -- Laws, regulations and rules -- International aspects, Political systems -- Forecasts and trends -- International aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, COVID-19 -- Prevention -- Political aspects -- International aspects, Democracy, Coronaviruses, Coronavirus infections, Exports, Dissenters, Foreign military assistance, Prisons, Power (Philosophy), American military assistance, Journalists, Novels, Government regulation, Market trend/market analysis, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Joshua Kurlantzick Azerbaijan's dictator, Ilham Aliyev, is a wily survivor. He woos European democracies with gas exports, hosts the Eurovision song contest and wins $100 million offers of military [...]

Published
2020

24. Nostalgia for the Derg; Ethiopia

Subjects
Ethiopia. Provisional Military Administrative Council -- History -- Powers and duties, Ethiopia -- History, Marxism -- Social aspects -- Political aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Ethiopian history, Business, Economics, Business, international, Revolutionary Democratic Front -- Political activity
Abstract

Some Ethiopians fondly remember a murderous and incompetent regime IN AMBO, a town in central Ethiopia, a teenage boy pulls a tatty photo from his wallet. 'I love him,' he [...]

Published
2017

25. She became the face of Spain's stolen-baby scandal. Her family says she wasn't abducted

Author

Parker, Claire

Subjects
Adoption -- Cases, Physicians -- Cases, Kidnapping -- Cases, Crime victims -- Cases, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Theft, Scandals, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Claire Parker Inés Madrigal, who last year became the face of a decades long child abduction scandal that still haunts Spain, has discovered that she was not among the [...]

Published
2019

26. Tricksters and tyrants: the human rights group Freedom House rates all countries in Central Asia as 'Not Free.' Among neighbouring states, only three are rated as 'Partly Free. 'This is a region of the world where dictators and despots rule

Subjects
Dictators -- Powers and duties, Uzbekistan -- Political aspects, Turkmenistan -- Political aspects
Abstract

Let's drop in on Islam Karimov and spend a little time in his company. Mr. Karimov is the President of Uzbekistan and, by his own modest account, he is a […]

Published
2003

27. 'The party that ate itself': Julian Reed-Purvis investigates Stalin's role in the origins of the great purges. (Talking Points)

Author

Reed-Purvis, Julian

Subjects
Russia -- History, Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- Powers and duties -- Social aspects -- Study and teaching -- History, Political persecution -- Social aspects -- Study and teaching, Dictators -- Powers and duties, History -- Study and teaching, History, Powers and duties, Social aspects, Study and teaching
Abstract

The late 1930s saw the beginning of a truly frightening period in the history of the Soviet Union. The Workers' State turned in on itself as millions of prominent, and [...]

Published
2001

28. STALIN'S STOPGAP JET FIGHTER: YAKOVLEV'S SIMPLE APPROACH TO DEVELOPING THE SOVIET UNION'S FIRST JET FIGHTER WORKED REMARKABLY WELL

Author

Guttman, Robert

Subjects
Soviet Union -- History, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Fighter planes -- Product development -- History, Aerospace and defense industries, History, Yak-15 (Aircraft) -- Product development -- History
Abstract

As World War II drew to a close, all the major combatants except the Soviet Union were readying new turbojet-powered fighters for operational use. That state of affairs was unacceptable [...]

Published
2019

29. Autocrats Love Emergencies

Author

Levitsky, Steven and Ziblatt, Daniel

Subjects
War and emergency powers -- Forecasts and trends -- Political aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Democracy -- Social aspects -- United States, President of the United States -- Powers and duties, National security -- Political aspects, Market trend/market analysis, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Crises are a time-tested means of subverting democracy.From Getúlio Vargas and other better-known dictators in the 1930s to Indira Gandhi and Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s and on to Vladimir [...]

Published
2019

30. Arab political exiles face a bleak reality. Could there be hope?

Author

Wittes, Tamara Cofman

Subjects
Assassination -- Political aspects -- Investigations, Activists -- Political activity -- Social aspects, Journalists, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Freedom of expression -- Forecasts and trends -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Exiles -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Exile, Conferences and conventions, Murder, Meetings, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Tamara Cofman Wittes Tamara Cofman Wittes is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was an official in the Near East Affairs Bureau of the State Department from [...]

Published
2019

31. African dictators have been losing power -- some to democratic governments. Militaries can tip the scales toward democracy

Subjects
Africa -- Political aspects -- Military aspects, Political protest -- Forecasts and trends -- Social aspects, Democracy -- Forecasts and trends -- Social aspects -- Africa, Military government -- Forecasts and trends -- Social aspects -- Political aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Political leadership -- Forecasts and trends, Political corruption, Opposition (Political science), Political issue, Market trend/market analysis, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Nathaniel Allen;Alexander Noyes Across Africa, long-standing dictators are losing their grip on power. In April alone, Sudan's Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika were forced to step down. [...]

Published
2019

32. A regime's success depends on its dictator

Subjects
Cuba -- Political aspects, United States foreign relations, Cuban foreign relations, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Political leadership -- Social aspects, Sanctions (International law) -- Political aspects, Communism, Communists, Socialists, Imperialism, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

'We have to warn the imperialists,' Fidel Castro thundered at a rally in Camaguey, Cuba, 30 years ago last week, 'that they not create so many illusions ... in reference [...]

Published
2019

33. At U.N., Vow To Hold Kim Accountable On Disarming

Author

Gladstone, Rick and Sugiyama, Satoshi

Subjects
Secretaries of state -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Nuclear disarmament, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Sanctions (International law), General interest, News, opinion and commentary, United Nations. Security Council -- Powers and duties
Abstract

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the United Nations on Friday to deliver the message that there would be no sanctions relief for North Korea until its [...]

Published
2018

34. We should stand with North Korea's dissidents

Author

Sharansky, Natan

Subjects
Dissenters -- Civil rights, United States foreign relations, President of the United States -- Foreign policy, Human rights, Dictators -- Powers and duties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Natan Sharansky Ten years ago, I participated in a conference on North Korean human rights in Washington. Speaking with brave North Korean men and women who had chosen to [...]

Published
2018

35. When Hitler met Hoover: 9 instances of dictators scoring presidential face time

Author

Trickey, Erick

Subjects
President of the United States -- Powers and duties, German history, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Summit meetings -- History, United States history, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Erick Trickey President Donald Trump's slapdash, on-again-off-again summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday will hand the North Korean dictator a diplomatic coup that his father and [...]

Published
2018

36. Trump offers reassurance that N. Korean dictator Kim Jong Un would remain in power under nuclear deal

Author

Nakamura, David and Rucker, And Philip

Subjects
President of the United States -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Foreign policy, Nuclear disarmament -- Laws, regulations and rules, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Summit meetings -- Planning, Government regulation, Company business planning, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: David Nakamura, and Philip Rucker WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday reassured North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that he would remain in power under a nuclear deal [...]

Published
2018

37. Trump offers reassurance that Kim Jong Un would remain in power under nuclear deal

Author

Nakamura, David and Rucker, And Philip

Subjects
United States foreign relations, President of the United States -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Foreign policy, Nuclear disarmament, Dictators -- Powers and duties, North Korean foreign relations, Summit meetings -- Planning, Company business planning, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: David Nakamura, and Philip Rucker WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday reassured North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that he would remain in power under a nuclear deal [...]

Published
2018

38. Russia-West Balancing Act Is Growing Ever More Wobbly in Belarus

Author

Nechepurenko, Ivan

Subjects
Belarus -- History -- Political aspects, Russian foreign relations, Belarusian foreign relations, Foreign policy -- Evaluation, Dictators -- Powers and duties, War games -- Political aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

MINSK, Belarus -- Western officials and the news media have for years routinely described President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus as ''the last dictator of Europe.'' So it may have [...]

Published
2017

39. Gambia's dictator ordered a witch hunt. This village is still haunted by it

Author

Hayden, Sally

Subjects
Wizards -- Laws, regulations and rules, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Witchcraft -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Government regulation, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Sally Hayden SINTET, Gambia -- Yahya Jammeh was 15 years into his tenure as Gambia's autocratic leader in 2009 when, according to local media reports, he ordered security forces [...]

Published
2018

40. Isaias Afwerki

Subjects
Dictatorship -- Methods, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Social sciences
Abstract

Position: President of Eritrea Reputation: Liberation fighter turned ruthless dictator Hard to believe one can fight against authoritarian occupation (by Ethiopia) for decades and then turn into a dictator oneself [...]

Published
2018

41. Desperate times; Syria's civil war

Subjects
Syrian Uprising, 2011- -- Political aspects -- Military aspects, Geneva II, 2014 -- Military aspects -- Political aspects, Rebels -- Political aspects -- Powers and duties, International cooperation -- Military aspects -- Political aspects, Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes -- Military aspects -- Political aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Pacific settlement of international disputes -- Military aspects -- Political aspects
Abstract

A conference on Syria is not enough. The West should also arm the rebels NOBODY thinks that the Geneva negotiations, which began on January 22nd after months of effort, will […]

Published
2014

42. North Korean Leader Purges Head of the Secret Police

Author

Sang-Hun, Choe

Subjects
Secret police -- Military aspects -- Officials and employees, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Generals -- Appointments, resignations and dismissals, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

SEOUL, South Korea -- The chief of North Korea's powerful secret police, long considered the right-hand man for the top leader, Kim Jong-un, has been dismissed on charges of corruption [...]

Published
2017

43. Assad wins, we lose

Subjects
Syrian Uprising, 2011- -- Forecasts and trends -- International aspects -- Casualties, Powers and duties, International aspects, Casualties, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Civil war -- Casualties -- Forecasts and trends -- International aspects -- Syria, Dictators -- Powers and duties
Abstract

When Hafez al-Assad, the former dictator of Syria, died and his son Bashar al-Assad succeeded him, observers doubted he would last. Bashar was an ophthalmologist in London. His father, the [...]

Published
2016

44. N. Korean leader expresses 'deep condolences' after Castro's death

Author

Gamel, Kim

Subjects
Presidents (Government) -- Death of, Cuban foreign relations, Dictators -- Powers and duties, North Korean foreign relations, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Kim Gamel SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea began a three-day mourning period Monday for the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro as the isolated country clings to ties with [...]

Published
2016

45. Sundown: Undercover Jews

Author

Tracy, Marc

Subjects
Blockades -- Laws, regulations and rules, Dictators -- Powers and duties, Mayors -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Abstract

* The acting mayor of Amsterdamthe former mayor, Job Cohen, is currently leading his party in upcoming electionsis considering a plan to dress policemen up as Jews as a way [...]

Published
2010

47. If he has just tested a nuclear weapon and the missile to deliver it, the rational dictator would inhibit and confuse everyone afraid of a strike by making a move suggesting peaceful intent

Subjects
Winter Olympics -- Political aspects, Olympic athletes -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Women's hockey -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, International sports -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects, Government regulation, Political science
Abstract

If he has just tested a nuclear weapon and the missile to deliver it, the rational dictator would inhibit and confuse everyone afraid of a strike by making a move [...]

Published
2018

48. Helping North Koreans 'live in truth'

Subjects
United States foreign relations -- Political aspects, Human rights -- Political aspects, Dictators -- Powers and duties, North Korean foreign relations -- Political aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board The late Czech dissident Vaclav Havel once said that a totalitarian system, by making false claims such as its right to rule, lives a lie. [...]

Published
2015

49. Rule by Velvet Fist

Author

Guriev, Sergei and Treisman, Daniel

Subjects
Dictatorship -- Methods, Dictators -- Powers and duties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

THE standard image of dictatorship is of a government sustained by violence. In 20th-century totalitarian systems, tyrants like Stalin, Hitler and Mao murdered millions in the name of outlandish ideologies. [...]

Published
2015

50. Isolated and nuclear-armed, dictator Kim Jong-un keeps world on edge

Author

Marquand, Robert

Subjects
Nuclear weapons -- Investigations, Ballistic missile defenses -- Investigations, Dictators -- Powers and duties, North Korean foreign relations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Robert Marquand Amid claims and counterclaims between North Korea and the Pentagon about whether the regime can miniaturize nuclear weapons to fit atop a missile, North Korea has scotched [...]

Published
2015

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