The Rapid Rise of Autocracy in the Modern World
- 18-Apr-2024
When South Korea was initially formed in the 1940s, Syngman Rhee, an anti-democratic tyrant became its first ever president. His reign of 12 years was marked by oppression, corruption and rigging of any possible elections that came on cards. It was a relief to many South Koreans when he was overthrown in the Student Revolution […]
Struggle between autocracy and non-autocracy
- 29-Aug-2023
The role of force is vital in distinguishing among political systems in terms of the exercise and control of power. Pakistani power matrix is a combination of autocratic and non-autocratic tendencies overlapping each other though the balance is understood to tilt in favour of autocratic intention and content. At the very outset it is pointed […]