Republican Egypt became a model for other Arab dictatorships and forced wrenching changes at home.
There are several other Middle Eastern countries where secular dictatorships provide minorities with a protection of sorts.
Fifty out of 67 transitions from dictatorships to democracies in the last 35 years came from non-violent struggle.
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Until the coup, Thailand seemed to be escaping its historic cycle of alternating military dictatorships and weak civilian rule.
After WWI numerous democracies rose up but just as quickly fell to dictatorships.
We came to America to get away from the Islamist dictatorships, and we now want to be left alone.
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They claim that the latter group includes Arab dictatorships like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and democracies like Turkey, the EU, and Israel.
Living in post-Franco Spain, along with his visits to former Eastern Bloc countries like Hungary and Romania, taught him something about dictatorships in transition, he says.
Unlike with monarchies or modern dictatorships, which can treat deployments and commitments as moves on a chessboard, the consent of a democracy must be sought and maintained.
He strongly opposed the Argentinean and other Latin American dictatorships during the 1970's and 80's and became a star during a dark time where tragic events where occurring in the Southern Cone of Latin America.
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Traditional geopolitical relationships would be turned upside down, with such resource-poor and technology-rich countries as Israel and Japan suddenly able to achieve energy self-sufficiency, while the oil-producing dictatorships would finally have to face the consequences of decades of squandered wealth.
Different tribal and sectarian histories, different types of monarchies or dictatorships, the heterogeneous effect of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, European colonialism, different geographic distributions of fossil fuel within the region, all contribute to a unique manifestation of populism and uprisings.
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It's the latest in the seesaw struggle between Egypt's first democratically elected president and dissidents who say his tenure is a throwback to past dictatorships, particularly the reign of President Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled in a popular revolt two years ago.
This theory, he admits, may be more poetic than real, but it's true that modern Argentina has had a lot of influence from European immigration, particularly from independence in the 19th century until the 1950s, when immigration restrictions tightened during the country's military dictatorships.
"These archives are fundamental to the processes of re-democratization in the region, particularly in a context in which the Southern Cone countries have established mechanisms such as Truth Commissions or Commissions for Peace, in order to guarantee the right to memory, truth and justice, especially for the victims of dictatorships and their families, " says Jorge Grandi, Director of the UNESCO Montevideo Office.
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