Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “Dictatorship” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Dictatorship” and its relation with “the human and political communities around the globe”. The research also analyzes many aspects of “Dictatorship” and tries to gauge its effect on “the overall response, pros and cons on the global community”. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for the adoption of “Dictatorship” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Dictatorship” on “the survival of the human race in the world today and tomorrow”.

Dictatorship

Introduction

In any given institution, there must be one individual who exercises his authority over his subjects. The same applies to the government. Dictatorship in essence is a form of ruling in which a nation is governed by an individual who rules in tyranny. This kind of ruling is always considered by most people as an unlawful way of exercising his power. This article seeks to elucidate widely and fully on dictatorship with special emphasis on presidency.

A brief history

Individuals who rule in dictatorship are mostly referred to as dictators or rather tyrant. These are persons who are considered to be full of cruelty, arrogant and irrational too. He is a person who lacks esteem towards other people's rights. A single president, governing a nation is has always had a mentality of forcing new rules to his subjects. They are believed to be taking advantage of nearly all of the citizens' freedom. Currently, dictatorship has been said to refer to a system of total ruling in which most of the citizens rights are not catered for in the law governing them. Dictatorship generally entails all the negative impacts imparted to the citizens as a result of a poor system of ruling by the president. Most of the information entailed in the booklet of law governing the citizens is usually in favor of the president. In dictatorship, nearly the entire constitution, some other political as well as social factors within the state are denied access by the citizens (Cooper, 12-16).

Gadhafi's “Mad Dog” dictatorship

Muammar "Mad Dog" Gadhafi is not mad, but bad; bad, brutal, touchy and exhibitionist, undoubtedly. Capricious, overdressed, long-winded and weirdly coiffure certainly displayed the first key impressions that locked the attention of the human mind. But so far from being insane, Libya's ruler of 41 years has clung to power in a way that is consistent, effective and entirely ruthless. Colonel Gadhafi's rule, even if it is over by the time you read this, has been one of the longest in modern history, and in many ways has been a textbook dictatorship, surviving by assiduously shoring up the twin pillars of every tyranny: the cult of personality and artificial fear.

In his televised, finger-wagging address on Sunday night, Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, recited a checklist of familiar fears intended to cow the population into submission: Islamists, foreigners sitting in "comfortable chairs, drinking coffee", Libyans in exile, drug-takers, the meddling media and imperialists. Gadhafi took power as ...