Karimov World’s 5th-Worst Dictator
Sorry for not blogging in a long time - I’ve been digging my way out from beneath a pile of books and articles on democracy and transitions theory - Dahl, Rawls, Lipset, Schumpeter, etc. I’ll throw some text on the grill later this week (hopefully).
And now for the news:
In PARADE Magazine’s annual 10 Worst Dictators listed Islam Karimov as the world’s fifth-worst dictator. What propelled him from fifteenth was Andijan, although expelling the American military from the Karshi-Khanabad air base probably didn’t help. Niyazov scored eighth, the same as 2005 and 2004. However, as the article notes, the list is getting steadily worse, and maintaining the same position actually indicates a downward trend.
Ranking the World’s Dictators
If you’ve ever picked up a Sunday paper in the US, you’ve no doubt seen the PARADE magazine insert. I quit getting the paper long ago, so it was via Alan Cordova that I saw that PARADE just came out with their annual ranking of the world&#…
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Congratulations to Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan!
Congratulations to Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan!
You’ve made the Number One Ranking for the World’s Worst Dictator!
Last year you were also Number One according to Parade Sunday Magazine’s annual list.
And “A Job well done” awa…
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