Instead of promoting political reform, many have instead opted to harden the organs of repression.
He said those planning and prosecuting the war might have failed to appreciate how deeply Mr. Hussein's personality and organs of repression pervade Iraqi society.
Despite his grip on the organs of repression, his long-term prospects for turning his country round and staying on top of it look increasingly bleak.
His chapter "Into the Whirlwind" (after Ginzburg) is a model, nuanced analysis of Stalinist practices: from the monopoly power of the party-state to its mad economics, its colonialism and its gargantuan organs of repression.
Here in the provinces, we cannot raise our voices.' The police may be mostly quiescent, but the state security officers, who were the real organs of repression, have completely disappeared.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The police may be mostly quiescent, but the state security officers, who were the real organs of repression, have completely disappeared.
The police have been used as an organ of internal repression.
Internal security was vested in 1689 in the chancery of the Preobrazhensky Guards, the tsar's own regiment, which became a much-dreaded organ of political police and repression.
Patterns of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial gene expression differed across three previously validated gene expression-based subclasses of pediatric septic shock, with the greatest degree of repression in patients with the most organ dysfunction and highest mortality.
Nrf2-linked genes can be used to differentiate two previously validated subclasses of children with septic shock, with a greater degree of repression in children with a higher mortality and more organ failure.
In addition, all the organs of government that we think of in the West as being fair have become instruments of repression".
