But a totalitarian regime that forces its political opponents to flee, presents special circumstances.

In this regard, special attention should be paid to Oppenheim's approach, which distinguishes political treaties not creating a permanent regime, which have a greater chance of suspension, and political treaties creating a permanent regime, which have a lower chance of suspension.

Over the past years, the political regime in Viet Nam continued to be stable (see previous reports).

Tocqueville viewed democracy not only as a political regime, but, above all, as an intellectual regime that shapes a society s customs in general, thereby giving it a sociological and psychological dimension. Democratic regimes, Tocqueville argued, determine our thoughts, desires, and passions.

(d) On 21 September 1981, political protests, compounded by social troubles, led to the overthrow of the democratic regime by André Kolingba, an army general.

But, with the Kim regime terrified that economic liberalization would eventually provoke demands for greater political freedom, China s influence over the regime is limited. As a Chinese official once told me in an unguarded moment, North Korea has hijacked our foreign policy.

The cultural board of the Institute was engaged in many political activities against the regime, such as the publication and distribution of pamphlets, forbidden books, bulletins, and magazines.

The US can undermine the Iranian regime by avoiding statements and actions that help drive energy prices higher and bolster Iran s economy. Administration officials should lower the political temperature.

Support the formation of a transitional authority, supported by the military and the street, and including independent political figures untainted by the regime, to prepare free and fair elections

These shortfalls in international political will were disheartening to the EU, which made clear throughout the Conference its strong support for a strengthened nuclear non proliferation and disarmament regime.

Understanding the political, legal and technical constraints and assessing avenues for progress are essential to building an international regime capable of effectively and comprehensively dealing with issues concerning space security.

In the former Soviet Union and its satellite states, environmental activism contributed dramatically to regime change. In countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, environmental protest has helped spur political reform.

Instead of trying to build non partisan and competent regulatory institutions, all positions were stacked with political followers. Unfortunately, the military intervention last July gave rise to yet another regime that seems unable to build durable institutions that could foster political reconciliation and deliver inclusive growth.

One of the safest political systems of recent times was President Suharto s regime in Indonesia. Suharto came to power in 1966, establishing a quasi military dictatorship and encouraging Indonesians to enrich themselves.

Regime Change in China?

Export Controls Legal Regime

But this year, with rising impatience and anger in South Korea toward the North Korean regime, the food and fertilizer is in doubt. And some analysts in Seoul believe that a dicey political succession in Pyongyang, combined with food shortages in the countryside, could prove too much for the North Korean regime to handle.

This is related to the final document s most significant lacuna political reform. In fact, a Singapore style approach combining a freewheeling market economy and an authoritarian regime has clearly emerged from the plenum.

We lived under apartheid regime.

Yemen s Regime Change Gets Personal

Basis of the sanctions regime

Policy space is also required to ensure that important social and political ends such as food security are compatible with international trade rules. Developing nations should argue that recognizing these economic and political realities makes the global trade regime not weaker and more susceptible to protectionism, but healthier and more sustainable.

Economic sanctions and political isolation have, of course, deeply hurt the regime, especially the Revolutionary Guards, whose leaders and industries have been directly targeted by the international community. But these are not the only factors.

Libya has become a Mecca for European leaders trying to win multi billion dollar oil and investment deals. The rehabilitation of the Qaddafi regime has never included any push to ease political repression in Libya.

Its political regime, its ideology, and its military and economic potential are very different from that of Hitler s state. Modern Israel is also not like the weak Jewish communities dispersed throughout Europe in the past.

In such situations, the great advantage of democracies is that they allow a change of rulers without a change of regime. Failure discredits only the party or coalition in power, not the entire political system.

The low level of accession to the Convention, especially among so called host States, could be explained in part by the fact that the protection regime under the Convention involved sensitive legal and political issues.

Those States must also be brought into the regime so that the NPT can become a truly universal disarmament regime.

Regime Change in the Arab World

Saudi Arabia s Old Regime Grows Older

His regime is bound to collapse.

His regime is bound to collapse.

The humanitarian community joined the regime change chorus when Assad responded to Arab Spring protesters demand for political liberalization by unleashing the army and paramilitaries. From March to August 2011, Assad s forces killed around 2,000 people.

It should have been clear to them that a violent crackdown was inevitable. By provoking the regime, the students derailed any chance of slow political reform, which their more moderate elders had carefully set in train.

The Syrian revolution is essentially a civilian and political rebellion against dictatorship one that is gradually unraveling Assad s regime. The opposition must begin to lay the groundwork for a new order based on unity and cooperation.

And then there has been the creation of something akin to a political fifth column across Europe. The continent's Euroskeptic political parties, on both the left and the right, are holding up Putin's authoritarian nationalism as a model for the type of illiberal regime they would seek to establish should the EU dissolve.

Frustrated with a bureaucracy reluctant to implement his political vision, Qaddafi bypassed traditional institutions and claimed a direct dialogue with the country s population. The new Libyan leader created an intricate hierarchy of political organizations that were advertised as empowering citizens, but which in reality only reinforced their subservience to his autocratic regime.

Indeed, the IST s close association with the US backed establishment of a successor regime is fraught with political pitfalls. Transitional criminal justice must be broad enough to reconcile a divided Iraq, and, therefore, include Shi a and Kurdish crimes against humanity, while it apparently must also avoid embarrassing the US or its allies, particularly regarding their extensive dealings with Saddam s regime.

The only question is whether political tensions could bring the music screeching to a halt. There is no doubt that, whatever India s legitimate differences with China s Communist regime, cooperation is in the best interests of both peoples.

Can Russian President Vladimir Putin s regime withstand a prolonged period of low energy prices and Western sanctions? What risks do you see emerging should Russia s economy continue to decline, with Putin increasingly unable to reward his political base?

That is why Syrian Kurds political representatives advocate a negotiated settlement, and are willing to sit down with anyone regime or rebels to achieve a peace agreement. Other rebel factions demand Assad s resignation we insist on no such preconditions.

Among the issues provided for in the articles was the legal regime on countermeasures, whose codification constituted a safeguard against political and arbitrary countermeasures, and included a set of legality tests which any such countermeasure would have to satisfy.

Unfortunately, despite those efforts, the Turkish leadership insists on promoting the illegal regime in the north and, in many instances, opts to sacrifice the economic advancement of the Turkish Cypriot community for the sake of achieving its political ends.

There is also a close relation to the treaties creating a territorial regime and, in so doing, setting up standards governing the human rights of the population as a whole, or a regime for minorities, or a regime for local autonomy.

While inferior to the open alternation of power between two or more political parties, the evolution of United Russia into something resembling the LDP would still leave Russia in a much better shape than a personal regime confined to the Kremlin. Despite Russia s history after 1917, one dominant political party is preferable to none at all.