An entity that is authoritarian and hierarchical in nature cannot be relied on to protect and promote a democratic transition.

But it is puzzling only if we characterize Asia as being multi polar rather than hierarchical.

Recommendation No. 2 suggests that activities be undertaken to sensitize professionals in the legal community to the status of international treaties in the hierarchy of Brazilian laws.

From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

This measure arises directly out of compliance with Recommendation No. 2, which suggests that Brazil clarify the situation of international treaties in the hierarchy of Brazilian laws.

Such groups are now less likely to be large, hierarchical organizations. Instead they are likely to be small groups or networks of individuals with specific skills.

We have been accustomed to societies with a demographic structure that resembles a pyramid a broad youth base tapering to an elderly tip.

This is the dominant mode of organization among large organizations most corporations, governments, and organized religions are hierarchical organizations with different levels of management, power or authority.

The Bill delimits the assistance to women who are victims of domestic and family violence by incorporating the paradigm that the power hierarchy in our society does not privilege women.

The sociological imperative behind the spread of political correctness is the fact that we no longer live in patriarchal, hierarchical, mono cultural societies, which exhibit general, if unreflective, agreement on basic values.

In the medium term it would also be necessary to look at the consequences of universal ratification, not only at the theoretical level, by clarifying the hierarchy of the source texts, as was done for the dual nature of humanitarian law, but also in practical terms, in the sense of a rationalization of the entire treaty system.

But, while Al Qaeda maintained its ideology after 9 11, its organization changed dramatically. From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

The seemingly obvious conclusion would be true but for the fact that Asia has a unique kind of hierarchical security system that came about partly by accident and partly by design.