This just came to my attention: a pretty astounding case of Orwellian autocracy from Amazon.
Arab autocracy means that such feelings have yet to express themselves in political terms.
But left-wingers have no monopoly on elected autocracy, as Alberto Fujimori showed in Peru in the 1990s.
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But what Mr Wade's supporters praise as his vision and statesmanship, his critics see as a tendency towards megalomania or autocracy.
Egypt was an autocracy with a tiny elite and a huge underclass.
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Threatening to chuck Mr Orban out of the EPP could be the best way of steering him off the path towards autocracy.
In Russia it meant that the old, absolute autocracy had to change.
However, there are signs that Mr Karimov may be thinking that his autocracy is not providing a solution to all the country's problems.
After Mr Fujimori's corrupt and centralised autocracy, Peru needs institutional reforms.
The 1225 charter was a refined version (the early 67 clauses had been cut by almost half) of the original, but it served the same purpose: to protect the populace from autocracy and tyranny.
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But instead Russia got Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationalism.
His upbringing, however, was also that of the scion of a Middle Eastern autocracy: Gamal and his older brother, Alaa, were raised in tightly guarded, luxurious residences in Heliopolis, a neighborhood favored by top officials and military officers, and were driven around Cairo in limousines.
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