"The proposal to support civil society in Cuba is theoretically desirable from the U.S. perspective but it's impractical because the Cuban government sees it as a new form of regime change," said Mr. Pastor, who visited the island in March.
By promptly sending a team of water experts to the area, America showed that it is not in the mood to accept a bust-up that would further inflame Arab opinion.The pay-off for America's new openness to Arab concerns may come in the form of wider backing for some form of "regime change".
19): President Mamadou Tandja of Niger, certainly no democrat, but elected nonetheless, has been overthrown by his army in an exercise that brings back bad memories of a time, not long ago, when coups d'etat were a common form of regime change in Africa.
In theory, power was held by people's committees in system of direct democracy, without political parties, but in practice, Col Gaddafi's power was absolute, exercised through "revolutionary committees" formed of regime loyalists.
And since Spinoza claims that democracy is the most absolute form of regime (e.g., 11/1), it would seem that again, on the whole and in most cases Spinoza favors democracy.
The disequilibrium dynamics in the form of regime-dependent output-, empriceent-, price- and wage fluctuations complicate the decision making problems faced by the fiscal and monetary policy makers substantially.
He was hailed by contemporaries and by posterity as a key figure who helped spread the liberal ideals that allowed Brazil and Portugal to move from Absolutist regimes to representative forms of government.
The goal is to innovate more minimalist forms of government that would force existing regimes to change under competitive pressure.
Instead, they wanted to show that each person, given their diverse interests and reasons, still had sufficient reason to comply with some form of political regime even if that regime did not permit them to act as they would like.
