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Mexico is indeed becoming a democracy, rather than the autocracy it was.

That "can have the effect of subsidizing an Arab government's attempts to build a kinder, gentler autocracy," it added.

"It is not an autocracy, it is an oligarchy," he said, explaining that in addition to the president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, there are multiple power centers, like the military, the intelligence services and the elite bureaucrats.

"Faced with a problem, people try bribes, personal connections or force".After decades of totalitarianism and centuries of autocracy, it would be silly to expect Russia to sprout a strong civil society and independent institutions like mushrooms.

It will take many years for the national economy to recover from seven decades of Communism, not to mention centuries of feudal autocracy; it may take another generation for the national psyche to heal.

One group is bound to be extremely disappointed.Alexis Tsipras immediately declared that Greece is leaving behind catastrophic austerity, it is leaving behind the fear and the autocracy, it is leaving behind five years of humiliation and pain.

The removal of repressive autocracies, it says, should be achieved by negotiation, not by the bullet.In this section Can the joy last?

While the results might inform diplomacy with autocracies, it should be clear that efforts to minimise the influence of the autocrat, either through diplomatic means or assassination, are rarely going to be antiseptic.

I hope that Americans do complete the quest for democracy in Arab states, because if Iraq becomes a democracy while the other regimes continue as autocracies, it would be like having a rose among thorns.

"In autocracies it's the government exercising control and misusing the pillars of the state to stay in power.

"A country needs democracy, but a business needs autocracy, or it'll go down the tubes," he told his staff.