On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism...

There is real evidence to show its intention of establishing a Scientological society (in particular, a Scientological legal system) and dominating the existing order by tyranny and despotism.

The region s entire value system a political culture forged by autocracy is being transformed. Arab men and women have shed the sense of humiliation and inferiority that despotism imposed on them and that fostered desperation, anger, violence, and insularity.

By strengthening civil society through legal rights and long term economic development and instituting clear rules to ensure accountability, political despotism and corruption will be brought under control. We should be uncompromising, therefore, in our defense of civil liberties.

The sociologist Max Weber described three bases of authority traditional, charismatic, and rational (legal). The first has fallen away, its accompanying social structures superseded by industrialization, urbanization, and feminization of the workforce, while the oft seen link with despotism has delegitimized the second.

Another is a far off republic where converted apparatchiks, in order to disguise their lack of industriousness in restoring their democracy, have sold the United States their uranium and their souls, in the hope that their corruption and despotism will be forgiven.

Clear electoral rules and procedures can help ensure transparency, but accountability also comes from the broad society in between elections. Privately owned newspapers, independent radio and television networks, trade unions, churches, professional societies, and other groups within civil society provide a bulwark against despotism.

The reality, however, is that 80 of these people are refugees, attempting to escape despotism, terror, and religious extremism in countries like Syria, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. That is why international law requires that the cases of asylum seekers are examined not in bulk, but one by one.

A strong current of liberalism appeared in the late nineteenth century in Ottoman Syria in response to the religious despotism of Sultan Abdulhamid. At the same time, an anti clerical, secular movement on behalf of constitutionalism appeared in Iran a reaction to the absolutist alliance between the Quajar Shahs and the religious establishment.

Turkey is not Asian only in terms of economic energy and rapid growth it is also Asian in a more political sense, with the rising temptation of a form of Oriental despotism. Indeed, for many years, domestic critics of Erdoğan s government have been denouncing what they describe as the Putinization of the regime.

GENEVA Asia s political spectrum ranges from the brutal despotism of North Korea to the enlightened constitutional monarchy of Bhutan (so enlightened that it developed Gross National Happiness as an alternative measure to Gross Domestic Product), with many shades in between. But the old charge that Asia is ill suited for Western style democracy is being leveled again.

Consequently Brussels is no government to be, but a regulatory authority and this often to the benefit of European consumers. This authority, the technocrats claim, in turn is part of a system of national and supra national checks and balances which, while not resembling a national democracy, would reliably prevent despotism from taking root in Brussels.

The system was dead already, and it is to Yeltsin s great credit that he was able to bring Russia out of the ruins in one piece. Although Russia s future is uncertain, its history is becoming clearer, in part because we now know that the Twentieth Party Congress started the process that brought about the end of Soviet despotism.

We in the West may badly need Russia s energy, but if Russia does not want its future to degenerate into Oriental despotism, it must engage with the West in good faith. If Putin genuinely seeks to bolster Russia s global standing, he must not allow Russians sense of humiliation in the years since the Soviet collapse to stand in the way.

The famous ones despotism is a good one anarchy is a way to not deploy the power in any organized way, to do it in a radically diffused fashion and democracy is a set of technologies, which have the effect of, in principle, diffusing the power source to a large number of people and then re concentrating it in a smaller group of people who govern, and who themselves are, in principle, authorized to govern by virtue of what the broader public has done.