In 1971, Gen. Idi Amin seized power, establishing a decade-long reign of terror.
The remedies are to disperse power, establish the rule of law and encourage private enterprise.
But the authoritarian president has since pushed them out of power, establishing firm control over the country.
In 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Derg disintegrated and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front took power, establishing a parliamentary republic.
And their loyalty is based on the belief that they would lose everything if he were to be overthrown and a new dispensation of power established in Baghdad.
And with that stance, Mukasey seems intent to continue to serve - as Leahy recently described him - as "caretaker for the regime of excessive executive power established by the Bush administration".
The meetings are regarded as the strongest evidence to date that Kim Jong Il, until the summit meeting a mysterious recluse who ruled his country with the totalitarian power established by his father, Kim Il Sung, is committed to rapprochement.
A joint declaration to be signed by the two leaders at a UK-France summit will signal a shared commitment to civil nuclear power, establishing a framework for co-operation on security, research and development, education and training.
Succumbing at last to the Lombard power established at Capua and Benevento, Naples saw the Lombards dispossessed, in turn, by the Norman conquests that swept southern Italy in the 12th century.
Britain, as the colonial power, established a Hashemite kingdom that took little account of other communities like the Shia or the Kurds - a theme that was to recur throughout Iraq's turbulent history.
