As a result, politicians in Kyrgyzstan's neighbors in Central Asia now maintain that they need heavily centralized rule to avoid Kyrgyzstan's fate.
Otherwise, "centralized rule is finished in Iraq".
Focusing on the Roman Empire after Constantine's conversion to Christianity, Kelly illuminates a period of increasingly centralized rule through an ever more extensive and intrusive bureaucracy.
The figure of the strong sultan was personified by Mawlāy Ismāʿīl (1672 1727), who used a slave army, known as the ʿAbīd al-Bukhārī, to subdue all parts of the country and establish centralized rule.
The instability of the throne is, however, a sign of political decay, and the fiction of centralized rule may have been accepted only because there was no alternative style of government to kingship.
In a twist, as states across the globe retrench and solidify their hold, the quest for centralized rule and the quashing of dissent have caused borders to become porous.
While it is true, Mr. Clark acknowledges, that Frederick curbed the power of the nobility and from Berlin imposed centralized rule over the region known as the Mark Brandenburg, posterity has greatly exaggerated the power of the nascent Prussian state, whose officials numbered not more than a few hundred men.
Some Germans believed that a move back to Berlin — the old imperial capital, Hitler's capital — would coax forth the ghosts of Prussian militarism, of centralized rule after decades of federalism that had assuaged the fears of neighbors to the east and the west and of Germans themselves.
He introduced Islam to Nuristanis, gave Afghanistan its present borders, and for the first time subdued its disparate tribes, bringing them under centralized rule.
An ongoing effort has been made to centralize rule development and provide CDS services across the enterprise.
