Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025
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Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025 is a 2003 book by Mark Palmer, the former United States ambassador to Hungary. In the book, Palmer recounts the life histories of the world's remaining dictators, their vulnerabilities, and strategies for removing them from power, usually through non-violent means. He asserts that the world's dictators are the cause of terrorism and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, and are the "major security threat to [the United States], their neighbors, and the world."[1]
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[edit] The Forty-Five Least Wanted
In this chapter, Palmer profiles each of what he sees are the world's 45 remaining dictators, separating them into groups. He argues the list should be similar to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and that it should be updated annually.[2]
[edit] Personalistic Dictatorships
[edit] Currently in power
- Isaias Afewerki,
Eritrea - Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo,
Equatorial Guinea - Idriss Déby,
Chad - Paul Biya,
Cameroon - Lansana Conté,
Guinea - Robert Mugabe,
Zimbabwe - Muammar al-Gaddafi,
Libya - Joseph Kabila,
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Islom Karimov,
Uzbekistan - Nursultan Nazarbayev,
Kazakhstan - Emomalii Rahmon,
Tajikistan - Alexander Lukashenko,
Belarus - Hun Sen,
Cambodia - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom,
Maldives
[edit] No longer in power
[edit] Status unknown
[edit] Dead
Jose N Torres
[edit] Monarch Dictators
[edit] Currently in power
- Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud,
Saudi Arabia - Qaboos bin Said al Said,
Oman - Hamad bin Khalifa,
Qatar - Hassanal Bolkiah,
Brunei - Mswati III,
Swaziland
[edit] No longer in power
[edit] Dead
[edit] Military Dictators
[edit] Currently in power
[edit] No longer in power
[edit] Communist Dictators
[edit] Currently in power
[edit] No longer in power
[edit] Dominant-Party Dictators
[edit] Currently in power
- Hosni Mubarak,
Egypt - Bashar al-Assad,
Syria - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali,
Tunisia - José Eduardo dos Santos,
Angola - Ali Abdullah Saleh,
Yemen - Paul Kagame,
Rwanda
[edit] No longer in power
[edit] Theocratic Dictator
[edit] Currently in power
[edit] References
- ^ "The Real Axis of Evil: Removing the World's Dictators Through Diplomacy." Abridged transcript of a speech given at the Secretary of State’s Open Forum, Nov. 5, 2003, published by the American Diplomacy Publishers February 2, 2004. Accessed November 20, 2006.
- ^ Table of contents for Breaking the real axis of evil : how to oust the world's last dictators by 2025 / Mark Palmer. Library of Congress.
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