Regime

In ‘Antigone’ by Sophocles there are three main contributors to a new regime. They include fate, power and a woman role in society. The one factor that makes a large impact within the story is how women behave and act in a society. The story revolves around Antigone violating the rules implemented and disobeying them. King Creon who recently received the title as king established the new regime. He was in shock and disbelief that Antigone, who is a woman would go against his rules. Men should…

experience the world. These Ancients believe that the polis should be a symbiotic relationship; one that positively benefits both the individual and the city. Ancient philosophers Tacitus, Sallust, Cicero, Aristotle, Livy, and Aurelius believe that the regime or polis makes collective meaning, order, justice possible by…

itself a threat to power. To live under a post-totalitarian regime or any other regime is to live under constant order from the authority. To maintain power the regime depends on order from the people, therefore anarchy and discord weakens the regime becoming a threat to its power. Havel tells us that once someone steps out of living within a lie they have set a massive wave for everyone to follow, a wave that can bring down the regime, even the smallest act of resistance can have abrupt…

argue that the best way to move out of an authoritarian regime is an actor-centered pacted transition. During this essay, I will first discuss three reasons why an actor-centered pacted transition is the best transition to democracy. I will then conclude with how these three reasons combined make this type of transition the best. The first reason why an actor-centered pacted transition is the best way to move from an authoritarian regime is that it is largely nonviolent. These…

years we have seen Latin America’s opposition movements on the headlines of the news. Whether it is Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez marching with millions of civilians as a cry for help to the world about the discomfort of the current regime in Venezuela or the outraged of Mexicans citizens about the magical disappearance of the two Mexican students who were found dead in September of 2014. These are just some of the few cries for help and discomfort of the…

goals and managed to offer people a reasonably comfortable living standard, the regime was in fact a dictatorship, in which the regime controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. Forty years after being established, the system backfired, culminating in the collapse of the regime in 1989. Starting with an analysis of the factors that combined to bring about the collapse of the GDR regime, this essay will assess and conclude whether the internal or external factors…

form of government. Within a democracy, one can expect economic freedoms to pursue profits and better themselves through the free market, where as in authoritarian regimes, there is usually an absence or restriction of a free market. Also, democracies are fundamentally built on civil and political freedoms which authoritarian regimes, by contrast, restrict or abolish completely. Following the Democratic Peace Theory, one would also conclude that democracies are far more peaceful, and in turn…

Leadership played a huge role in deciding the fate of any regime, be it the Bolsheviks or the Anti-Bolsheviks, without a good leader, there was disunity, as seen with the whites. The Bolsheviks were extremely lucky in the quality of their leadership, with Lenin and Trotsky. Lenin had led the Bolsheviks to victory in the October revolution. Throughout the Civil war, Lenin provided the motivation and energy for his supporters to lead them into success - this was mainly due to the fact that he had…

George Orwell, in his immensely popular allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945), satirizes the political situation in pre-war Europe; especially the communist regime of the Soviet Union, whose dictator was Joseph Stalin. Alluding to the biblical story of The Ten Commandments, whose inscriptions were the law of God; the animals, once they take charge of the farm, they write their own commandments (the Seven Commandments), which are laws they should respect. The most striking one at the beginning…

Now that the literature on the topic has been through an exhaustive analysis, the authoritarianism of these regimes requires a comparison. Expansion of the similarities and the differences between Mubarak and Pinochet will provide a deeper understanding of the flexibility of autocracy. Egypt and Chile are an ocean apart, literally and figuratively. The regions differ greatly in nearly all facets such as origins, geography, language, social beliefs, and countless more. Examining a Middle Eastern…