Elsewhere, political parties are weak or are tools of the regime.

By saying this we referred to political and social repression by the regime.

The authoritarian nature of the political regime is at the core of this fragility.

) By summer 1973, the military backed regime had achieved most of its political tasks.

But a totalitarian regime that forces its political opponents to flee, presents special circumstances.

The third reason for pursuing dialogue is that factional infighting and political intrigue within the Iranian regime make for considerable political fluidity.

As for China s renminbi, it is still supported by a highly political exchange rate regime.

In this way, Putin s regime intensifies political dissenters longing for retaliation thereby hindering peaceful change.

One of the safest political systems of recent times was President Suharto s regime in Indonesia.

Despite continuing political restrictions imposed by an authoritarian regime, Deng Xiaoping succeeded beyond his wildest imagination.

There is also ongoing political and economic instability in the country due to the Mugabe regime.

All totalitarian systems have one thing in common by crushing all forms of political expression except adulation of the regime, they make everything political.

In this regard, special attention should be paid to Oppenheim's approach, which distinguishes political treaties not creating a permanent regime, which have a greater chance of suspension, and political treaties creating a permanent regime, which have a lower chance of suspension.

To fail would risk igniting a severe political backlash, including a spontaneous escalation of anti regime activities.

The rehabilitation of the Qaddafi regime has never included any push to ease political repression in Libya.

This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.

In 1991, he was freed from prison when the present political regime triumphed in the civil war.

Over the past years, the political regime in Viet Nam continued to be stable (see previous reports).

To be sure, several former and current European political leaders have sought to ally themselves with Putin s regime.

This could cause Wahhabi religious and political doctrine to lose ground among young people and fuel regime infighting.

Tocqueville viewed democracy not only as a political regime, but, above all, as an intellectual regime that shapes a society s customs in general, thereby giving it a sociological and psychological dimension.

But Lukashenko has given no sign that he is willing to democratize his regime, let alone release political prisoners.

This regime cannot survive in the long term with a political crisis such as the one it now faces.

Its political regime, its ideology, and its military and economic potential are very different from that of Hitler s state.

Indeed, the IST s close association with the US backed establishment of a successor regime is fraught with political pitfalls.

The Syrian revolution is essentially a civilian and political rebellion against dictatorship one that is gradually unraveling Assad s regime.

The regime will find no one to negotiate with and that will create a great deal of embarrassment to the allies of the regime. Political movements in Bahrain are used to working underground.

Critics of Vladimir Putin s regime argue that Russia s political system is too centralized and risks collapse in today s economic storm.

So when Kim Jong il passes from the scene, and political instability meets economic blight, the regime could fall apart.

Clearly, the Annan mission gave the regime some breathing space and created a temporary illusion of political and diplomatic progress.

Second, Ahmadinejad and the political leadership believe that the regime is under serious threat from the US and only from the US.

As Brzezinski added, Of course, it is important for the political regime in Azerbaijan to be as stable and legitimate as possible.

Demonstrations alone almost never topple a regime, but they can do so in combination with other political shifts, which can happen suddenly.

The Putin regime occupies a space between dictatorship and democracy for which Western political science has yet to find a proper word.

Indeed, with an increasingly lenient political regime, populism may become irresistible, while the size of the government bureaucracy may continue to bloat.

And the regime will not want the process of economic opening to get too far ahead of security agreements and political normalization.

Aged 69, Moncef Marzouki was a human rights activist and a political opponent to the regime of Zine el Abidin Ben Ali.

In a liberal regime, control of populations by political parties does not entail enrolment, since the system does not countenance totalitarian parties.

The Nobel laureate economist Robert Mundell once compared a monetary regime to a political constitution, because it establishes the rules of the game.

The reforms proposed by Saif al Islam included releasing some political prisoners, especially those, like the LIFG, who declared their allegiance to Qaddafi s regime.

Egypt s political elite, fearful of critical media coverage, defeat in fair elections, and even imprisonment, prefer the existing regime and oppose any significant reform.

Any change of regime in Burma will not be the result of international intervention, but of political negotiations between the junta and its domestic opponents.

With the seminaries politicized and their independence greatly reduced, the religious establishment is no longer in a position to confer political legitimacy on the regime.

Simply put, the global economy has at its center a dysfunctional political regime that generates recurrent threats of default on the world s major reserve asset.

(d) On 21 September 1981, political protests, compounded by social troubles, led to the overthrow of the democratic regime by André Kolingba, an army general.