Articles tagged with: dictators
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Thursday, 19 Apr, 2012
Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Qadhafi, Zine El-Abedine Ben Ali, Saddam Hussein, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and perhaps soon Bashar Al-Assad: once the masters of all they surveyed, autocrats who ruled with an iron fist. Now, with the benefit of hindsight—and the assistance of a recent book—we can gain an insight into how they kept themselves in power and why the behaved as they did. perhaps we can even understand why they eventually fell.
The Dictator’s Handbook, by US-based political scientists B...
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Monday, 19 Dec, 2011
Denial has for a long time been practiced as a political tactic. Leaders, like most individuals, rarely want to take responsibility for their errors in judgment. However, unlike individuals, the decisions and mistakes leaders make often have much greater consequences than the mistakes of civilians. Leaders are by virtue of their position accountable for all of their actions because civilians entrust power upon them so that they may make the right choices.
In practice however, politics rar...
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Friday, 21 Oct, 2011
Two shots. One to the head and another to the chest. That was the fate of a man who had ruled Libya for some 40 summers. Splayed on the back of a truck being used as a makeshif...
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