Sentence examples for coercive regimes from inspiring English sources

Berlin thought this type of freedom could be dangerous, because coercive regimes might turn it into a obligation to pursue what they saw as desirable outcomes.

Participatory politics may be arriving in the region, but most of the Muslim world recognizes no distinction between the realms of the sacred and the secular; mosque and state are inseparable, ensuring that political Islam is returning as coercive regimes fall.

Governance regimes include purely coercive regimes as well as regimes with some normative aspect to them.

Many of the participants had been under different coercive regimes for many years.

One, rather noisy, faction considers Syria ripe for coercive regime change.

But coercive regime change was never the key to democratic transition.

But it was stability of a kind that most countries would gladly be without: an equilibrium enforced by a coercive regime with the help of a dozen intelligence agencies, which deprived people of free speech and led the economy into a statist dead-end.

Can coercive regime change ever be justified, or is it essentially an act of imperialism?

Perhaps a few additional thoughts on coercive regime change should here be added, in light of controversial recent events, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Note that successful, rights-respecting coercive regime change can be done, contrary to some pessimistic views; it was actually done in Germany and Japan from 1945-55, and so it is neither conceptually nor empirically impossible.

Obama further damaged diplomatic prospects with three UN Security Council resolutions effectively authorizing coercive regime change in Damascus, which Russia and China vetoed.