India and Military Dictatorship
In: Pacific affairs, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 89
ISSN: 0030-851X
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In: Pacific affairs, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 89
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Current History, Band 29, Heft 5, S. 867-871
ISSN: 1944-785X
In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy, Band 19, Heft 3
ISSN: 1554-8597
In: The developing economies: the journal of the Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, Japan, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 668-684
ISSN: 1746-1049
In: Jadavpur journal of international relations: JNR, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 24-45
ISSN: 2349-0047
In: Journal of developing societies: a forum on issues of development and change in all societies, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 295-327
ISSN: 1745-2546
The thesis of this study is that dictators cannot be made in spite of socially propitious circumstances for their existence. Accordingly, transcending person-centered approaches – which limit themselves to intra-individual dynamics in the explanation of the origin of authoritarianism – I demonstrate how four important factors in concert have contributed to the making of Mengistu HaileMariam of Ethiopia as a dictator. First, the social and political basis for Mengistu's dictatorship was grilled by his predecessor, Emperor HaileSelassie, who, in order to augment his political position, was deeply interested in the centralization of power. Second, the absence of strong civil society, which could have acted as a counterweight to state power, set the condition for Mengistu's dictatorial regime. Third, Mengistu and his table companions justified their rule by an emergent ideology whose premises were drawn from the political philosophy of Marxism–Leninism and the social history of Ethiopia. Finally, favorable international context created a structurally conducive atmosphere for dictatorship through the acquisition of appropriate resources that reinforced Mengistu's militaristic establishment. However, none of these conditions by itself effectively addresses the issue under discussion without aligning it with the remaining set of conditions. Future study needs to focus on other cases in order to see if the same state of affairs were operative in the rise of a dictator.
In: Southeast Asian Affairs, Band SEAA19, Heft 1, S. 327-340
This book is a satirical exposition of the incompetence and fraudulance of the military in government. (DÜI-Hff)
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In: Journal of Inter-American studies and world affairs, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 1-38
ISSN: 0022-1937
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In: Journal of Interamerican studies and world affairs, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 1-38
ISSN: 2162-2736
In 1970, Dr. Salvador Allende, presidential candidate of theUnidad Popularcoalition, won a plurality — but not a majority — of votes from the Chilean electorate. Consequently, and in accord with Chilean electoral laws and constitution, the Chilean Congress was called upon to vote for the president, and it selected Dr. Allende as the country's new president. Soon thereafter a wave of opposition to his administration developed among business and middle-class sectors: Rightist political movements and parties, entrepreneurial associations, some white-collar unions, as well as groups representing both commercial interests and those of small business. Eventually this opposition determined that "the government of Allende was incompatible with the survival of freedom and private enterprise in Chile, (and) that the only way to avoid their extinction was to overthrow the government" (Cauce, 1984).
In: European Studies Review, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 325-353
In: Oxford development studies, Band 51, Heft 3, S. 307-321
ISSN: 1469-9966
In: Journal of Third World studies: historical and contemporary Third World problems and issues, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 201-222
ISSN: 8755-3449