As we repeatedly pointed out at the Center for Security Policy, the Chavez phenomenon is not a political regime that limits itself to Venezuela.
The key is for citizens to develop this same level of independence in a more progressive political regime, where help and welfare is more readily available to those who genuinely require it.
You can talk about all these things in Tunisia now, some of these topics were taboo under the Ben Ali regime, which used to project the image of a progressive and modern political regime but it wasn't the case.
In a ranking from 1 to 7, in which 1 means a regime of full political and civil rights and 7 the absolute absence of them, Freedom House has progressively worsened the ranking of the Russian regime, from 3 in 1999 to 6 today.
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For the U.S. to depose Saddam Hussein and then to sponsor the establishment of a Shiite-dominated political regime in Iraq, as it has, is to help create yet another Iranian-style regime in the region.
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So we'll continue to work through that area of difference with the Russians because we believe that they can play a role, again, in pressing the Assad regime and supporting a political transition.
They helped in South Africa, but only as part of a multi-front assault on apartheid as a regime and as an abhorrent political concept.
For example, Jouejati said, her group is trying to track down information about a young Damascus woman who was arrested after registering a new political party under the regime's new constitution.
Security Council -- whose will has been flouted -- must also now respond resolutely and impose a world wide ban on the sale of arms to the regime, " he said, calling the verdict a "purely political sentence designed to prevent her from taking part in the regime's planned elections next year.
Speaking to reporters at a government guesthouse in Moscow, Lavrov praised the Assad regime for expressing its willingness to work on a political transition and its decision to establish a dialogue with all Syrians.
There is no real solution except a political solution and we hope that the regime takes this seriously.
The markets seem comforted that the new political regime may consist of a divided government that forces both parties towards the center.
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The financial crisis of 1997-1998 poses a challenge to the political legitimacy of the regime similar in magnitude to the ideological crisis of 1989-1991.
In January, 2009 there was another series of network attacks during a time of political opposition to the Bakiyev regime as well as the closing of the Manas airbase.
From the need for a political process where opposition elements and the regime are in direct talks, to troop withdrawals, to providing humanitarian assistance, to releasing those arbitrarily detained and allowing free media access to respecting the freedom to protest peacefully.
But there are rumours that prominent businessmen and leading liberals within the regime are planning to launch a political party.
But it makes no difference if a regime has developed innovative strategies, political tools, or social controls if it doesn't use them.
"These tricks no longer fool anyone, especially given the fact that the regime has resorted to these escalations every time there is political movement at the Arab, regional or international level to find a political solution to the crisis in which the regime kills its people who are demanding freedom, " added the LCC.
In tandem, however, the Iranian regime likely will need to sacrifice a political pawn.
Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed and a stifling censorship regime ended.
Iran, the second-largest Middle East nation after Egypt, is an economic and political disaster, with a corrupt and brutal pariah regime betraying a rich civilization.
This aid is meant to go up there and help win the civilian population over -- instill trust, instill a level of comfort and confidence, trying to get them to separate from the political leadership of the Iraqi regime and trying to give them space to rise up, for lack of a better word.
It's also the collective belief of the people who are participating in that conference that a political transition will take place that ends with the Assad regime no longer being in power in Syria.
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It would amount to yet another, ill-advised Western effort to prop up a regime that continues to pursue policies that deny political freedom and economic opportunity at home and that continue to constitute a threat to Western interests overseas.
They were unnerved by what looked like more than the sporadic riots to which the country is prone: rather, the gathering momentum of student protest began to look like a real, if incoherent, political challenge to the Suharto regime.
This is because, unlike the United States, in China the ruling party, the government, the political system, the regime and China as a sovereign nation are all intricately interrelated with each other, and pulling away one block may cause the collapse of the whole order.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The decision by the U.S., the UK and Spain to promote a new jumbo U.N. resolution calling for an end to economic sanctions against Iraq now the Saddam Hussein regime has been removed and to define a political role there for the U.N. is a calculated risk.
Ordinary Nigerians, fed up with being robbed and bullied by their leaders, would probably like to see harsh punishments for the old regime, but Mr Obasanjo, a former political prisoner himself (he served three years of a 15-year sentence for allegedly plotting a coup against Abacha before the tyrant's death set him free), is inclined to be gentle.
What is needed now is a comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam and his regime.
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