In the long-run, Mexico will need to continue to improve its legal system and enhance the ability of local police forces to maintain order and uphold the rule of law.

FORBES: Connect

The U.S. should work hard with our allies to train the Iraqis needed to implement the rule of law--from competent local police, whose task is to fight crime rather than suppress the population, to courts of law based on Western-style principles of justice.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

He promised further efforts to strengthen the rule of law, and to extend elections for local leaders (but almost certainly not to big cities).

ECONOMIST: Out of the shadow of Deng

For example, many mining corporations operate in countries where the rule of law is not applied in a fair way by local governments.

FORBES: Why Has Corporate Social Responsibility Stalled?

On the other hand, they would seek out and empower local Muslims who accept the authority and legitimacy of their states and their rule of law.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Islam and the nation-state

Now, a slowing economy, corruption, rural anger and urban freedoms all mean that the party is under pressure to enforce the rule of law especially in order to curtail the impunity of local officials.

ECONOMIST: Chen Guangcheng

Although there has been an expansion of social and economic freedoms in many areas, under the Communist Party's system of cadre evaluations, local officials are graded on the basis of a series of internal targets that have little to do with the rule of law.

ECONOMIST: Suppressing dissent