It is hard to overestimate how much the arrival of weibo has changed the dynamic between rulers and ruled over the past two years.
Friends of Paul Kagame, Rwanda's dynamic but authoritarian ruler, talk of a "Putin-Medvedev scenario" that would let him stay merrily in charge, perhaps as prime minister, when his supposedly final term as president ends in 2017.
Back then, many in France saw Mr. Hussein as a modern-day Jacobin, a dynamic, nationalistic and secular ruler of a country where the army was disciplined, the women didn't have to wear headscarves, bills were paid promptly and, as a senior French official said, "a state was being built".
Domestic politics under Sigismund and even more so under his son and successor, Sigismund II Augustus (reigned 1548 72)—centred on a contest between the fast-growing magnate oligarchy and the dynamic gentry, with the rulers generally favouring the former.
It also examines the curious dynamic tension between the rulers and the ruled and what happens when that construct is dropped, if only for a little while and in private.
The lesson then was that a revolution is not a referendum, and the symbolism channeled by Tahrir Square represented a dynamic long dismissed by Arab rulers.
One strategy for escaping this dynamic that has traditionally been employed by national rulers is to move the capital to a new location, usually one built from scratch.
Potentially Africa's most dynamic country, Nigeria has been strangled by bad and greedy rulers, its people sunk in poverty and cynicism.
If the subject was unable to hold the ruler perpendicular in one dimension to the angle in which the dynamic record was taken, the second ruler would still be perpendicular to the camera.
Still, 61% of Kenyans want the ICC to go ahead with its case, according to one recent poll.Kenya is east Africa's most dynamic country but it remains a brittle construction left behind by British colonial rulers.
