An experimental musical about the Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milosevic generates controversy in Kosovo.
Why would the CIA risk controversy in 1965, at the height of the Cold War, by overthrowing an accepted leader like Sukarno in Indonesia or encouraging the assassination of the Catholic autocrat Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon in 1963?
As U.S. journalists came under attack from the White House, autocrats and dictators who previously feared U.S. sanctions over cracking down on press freedom in their countries gained new confidence after the 2016 elections, according to researchers.
You can say that's always been the case--kings, presidents, CEOs, autocrats and despots are indeed all people.
Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director of Human Rights Watch, said autocrats can now push back and assert that the tactics criticized by the State Department are routinely used by the United States.
And certainly there isn't the least irreverence: no suggestion, for instance, that we have an interest in this oil-rich region beyond a deep love for the people and their democratic aspirations; or that our partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council are autocrats who brutally repress dissent and, ahem, democracy.
Why are dictators so fickle with their cabinets, and how can ministers avoid being sacked, or worse?In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Patrick Francois and Francesco Trebbi of the University of British Columbia and Ilia Rainer of George Mason University modelled the autocrat's dilemma of choosing which ministers he should hire to run his government.
You might believe that Bloomberg is an autocrat, but if and when this ruling is overturned, the soda ban will go into effect regardless of who is mayor.
Mr. Nasaw's Hearst is an autocrat, spendthrift, bigot and egoist capable of being deluded by his own power and influence, but he is not entirely unsympathetic.
Subtitled "Downfall of an Autocrat" (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), the book on one level portrayed the lapsed life of Haile Selassie's imperial court by citing the recollections of palace servants, like the man responsible for cleaning the shoes of visiting dignitaries.
Shoulder to shoulder with the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, and Egypt's latest autocrat, General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the moment will mark the definitive death of the Arab spring, the hopes of the region's popular revolutions crushed by the newest generation of Middle Eastern strongmen.
