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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Autocrat"”.
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King Abdullah's Game: Autocrats and Globalized Interests
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is an autocrat facing increasingly globalized political dynamics. Instability in the Middle East calls into question the sustainability of his regime, but by balancing the interests and demands of both his domestic constituents and the international community, King …
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The Syrian Civil War
… be a rather straightforward conflict between an autocrat and citizens seeking greater freedom, has transformed into a sectarian war that has facilitated the rise of a powerful new terror group and greatly destabilized the region. This thesis attempts to formulate a realistic US response to the …
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Essays on innovation, leadership, and growth
… to non-democracies, where the death of an autocrat tends to be followed by a substantial, prolonged increase in growth.
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What explains authoritarian success and failure in Central Asia? : Exploring regime stability, economic performance, and governance strategies
… thesis seeks to explain the reasons why some autocratic regimes remain stable for long periods of time, whereas others experience greater degrees of instability. The task is approached through a comparative case study approach, where three Central Asian countries that share multiple historical …
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The huge delusion: a study of the young emperors and Roman historians
… revolutionary of the Republic to an imperial autocrat, and Sallust’s reaction to the conditions that he believed brought mentally unstable young men to power; (2) the delineation of madness and leadership, and a discussion of the variations and limitations of Roman beliefs; (3) the major …
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Captured Desires: Neoliberalism from Below in Fujimori's Peru
… champions of Alberto Fujimori, the right-wing autocrat who inaugurated the neoliberal era in Peru. Just as many today are drawn to the likes of Donald Trump or Javier Milei, in the 1990s the so-called fujimoristas saw in their leader’s neoliberal government the solutions to escape a traumatic …
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Unravelling the dynamics of authoritarian strategies : a comparative study of Suharto’s new order in Indonesia and Jammeh’s rule in the Gambia
… there exists an undertheorized and variations on autocrat’s decision calculus for prioritizing repression over co-optation, vice versa. Drawing from this, I make two assumptions that state: 1. Low resource endowment leads to high repression, and 2. High resource endowment leads to low repression …