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	Regime change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Regime change is the overthrow of a government (or regime) considered illegitimate by an external force (usually military), and its replacement with a new government according to the ideas and/or interests promoted by that force.
		The term 'regime change' can also be used in a more general sense, particularly in academic work, to refer to a change in political institutions or laws that affect the nature of the system as a whole.
		Regime changes are often viewed as ideal opportunites for natural experiments by social scientists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regime_change (688 words)

	Regime change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Regime change is an overthrow of a government (or regime) considered illegitimate by an external force (usually military), and its replacement with a new government according to the concept of political legitimacy promoted by that force.
		In contrast to a revolution, regime change is achieved from outside a nation, and in contrast to a coup d'etat it replaces the whole administrative apparatus and completely avoids any coöption or preservation of existing bureaucracy or other regime remnants.
		Regime change in Iraq became the stated goal of the United States when Public Law 105-338 (the " Iraq Liberation Act ") was signed into law by President Clinton.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Regime_change.html (777 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Regime Change and Its Limits - Richard N. Haass
		Regime change allows a state to solve its problems with another state by removing the offensive regime there and replacing it with a less offensive one.
		The Roosevelt administration ultimately chose to deal with Germany and Japan through a policy of regime change, seeking not simply to defeat them on the battlefield and reverse their conquests but to continue war until the regimes in Berlin and Tokyo were ousted and something much better was firmly ensconced.
		Odious or dangerous regimes should never be neglected, but the safest and best way to encourage their moderation or implosion is to smother them with policies that force them to open up to and deal with the outside world.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20050701faessay84405/richard-n-haass/regime-change-and-its-limits.html?mode=print (4376 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Regime Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His goal is a top-to-bottom regime change, an outcome not mentioned in any U.N. resolution.
		Another significant advantage to regime change in Iraq is the salutary effect it would have on America's ability to frust...
		In contrast to a revolution, regime change is achieved from outside a nation, and in contrast to a coup d'etat it replaces the whole administrative apparatus and completely avoids any cooption or preservation of existing bureaucracy or other regime remnants.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/rhetoric/Regime_Change (952 words)

	Regime Change: Is This a New Policy?, by Carl K. Savich
		Regime change seeks to impose a regime/government/ruler from outside of the country so attacked, substituting the will of the US government for that of the people of the attacked state.
		The Iraq regime change of 2002-2003 is not an exception, due to the threat of terrorism brought on by 9/11.
		Regime change is being advocated openly and overtly.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/savich2.html (1812 words)

	Geoffrey Nunberg - on "regime change" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That was the mother of all regime changes, and it gave us the phrase "ancien régime," or "old regime," as a name for the form of government that was about to come to a decisive end.
		That's the sense that regime has when it's paired with the name of a ruler or a political party, like "the Castro regime" or "the Sandinista regime." Or people sometimes talk about "the Havana regime" or "the Beijing regime," with the implication that the rulers just happen to be squatting in the seat of government.
		It wasn't till eighty years after the fall of the Bastille that the French finally stopped lurching from one regime to the next and settled into a more-or-less stable democratic system that nobody was tempted to describe as a regime in the first place.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /~nunberg/regime.html (932 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source
		Regime change will continue to be the desired outcome of American strategy, as long as the US remains the major military power in the world.
		The purpose of regime change is not the replacement of political and military forms (democratization), or even of personnel, but transformation of policy to suit American interests.
		When target states seek to change the balance of power in their favor, the US is faced with the choice of trying to repel the moves or to make concessions that erode containment.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/FF29Aa01.html (1976 words)

	CCC - Regime Change in Iran: An Analytic Framework (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If the regime fails to respond to pressures for reform, participatory RD increases to a point where violence is directed towards the establishment.
		With fleeting compliance, the regime's coercive functions are not standardized and loyalties are suspect—for example, the IRGC voting for Khatami in 1997.
		Regime change is accomplished by either a collapse or overthrow.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/nov03/middleEast2.asp (2919 words)

	Asia Times - Regime change in Iraq
		In Iran, the regime change came as a result of a mass movement, in contrast to the military coups and palace intrigues which had brought about all other regime changes for a quarter-century before and after the events in 1979.
		Sanctions were not an attempt to overthrow the regime but to isolate it internationally, ensure it did not become too strong in economic or strategic terms, and persuade it to turn away from the three objectionable policies: the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, subversion of Arab-Israeli peace efforts, and sponsorship of terrorism.
		Clearly, that the change in regime of a major Middle Eastern state can have an extraordinarily large impact on the region both through the example of a new type of regime and through the specific policies of the new government in power.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EG23Ak06.html (5733 words)

	"Regime Change" - From evasion to invasion. By Christopher Hitchens
		Of all the terms in the contemporary argument about war with Saddam Hussein, perhaps the most protean and slippery is "regime change." This is not all that surprising when you reflect that it had its origins in those heavily parsed years that we can never quite bring ourselves to call the Clinton era.
		Were things permitted to run their course, there could be a "regime change" of a sectarian, localized kind.
		Thus the logic of "regime change" has come to mean less and less a secondhand involvement in a proxy struggle waged by other people, and more and more a direct and avowed engagement in the enterprise of invading and then remaking someone else's country.
	www.slate.com /id/2076712 (944 words)

	Ilan Berman on Iran on National Review Online
		Just as important is the fact that Iran is in the grip of a fundamental demographic and political transformation: with two-thirds of Iranians now estimated to be under the age of 30, the bulk of the country's population has lived all of its life under the Revolution, and is distinctly aware of its deficiencies.
		For these elements, the campaign against Iraq, a manifestation of the Bush administration's commitment to lasting change in the Middle East, is a much-needed shot in the arm.
		While the United States and its Coalition allies are currently focused on Saddam Hussein's regime, policymakers in Washington should take stock of the fact that their gains there could decisively tip the scales in favor of democracy in Iraq's eastern neighbor.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-berman040803.asp (807 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		The second is that even a successful attempt at regime change in Iraq would have a dangerous destabilizing effect on the rest of the region, and could lead to general conflict and chaos.
		One is often told that if we succeed in overthrowing the regimes of what President Bush has rightly called the "Axis of Evil," the scenes of rejoicing in their cities would even exceed those that followed the liberation of Kabul.
		A regime change may well be dangerous, but sometimes the dangers of inaction are greater than those of action.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110002355 (1076 words)

	Rage, Hubris, and Regime Change by Ken Jowitt - Policy Review, No. 118 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to the administration, the essential element of our era is the threat emanating from a combination of tyrannical states and what I have called “movements of rage,” a malignant political coalition that relentlessly pursues and may succeed in possessing and using weapons of mass destruction (wmd) against the United States and its allies.
		Second, a hostile regime with wmd would be more willing to harbor and sponsor stateless “movements of rage” and add to the latter’s global reach insidious types of violent and traumatizing weapons.
		In this irony of ironies, the Bush administration’s identification of regime change as critical to its anti-terrorist policy and integral to its desire for a democratic capitalist world has led to an active “Leninist” foreign policy in place of Fukuyama’s passive “Marxist” social teleology.
	www.policyreview.org /apr03/jowitt.html (3539 words)

	Regime Change Was an Immoral Excuse for War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Regime change was the objective behind the cruel and brutal sanctions that the U.S. government and the UN maintained against Iraq throughout the 1990s, which contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children.
		The attacks on 9/11 provided new impetus for regime change in Iraq, despite the fact that neither the Iraqi people nor their government had had anything to do with those attacks.
		Because he undoubtedly knew that regime change as the reason for invading Iraq would encounter resistance among people who place a high value on human life, Bush developed his wide range of alternative justifications (WMD, ties to terrorists, dangerous dictator, liberation, democracy-spreading, etc.) for invading Iraq.
	www.fff.org /comment/com0504c.asp (807 words)

	Regime Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Williams heralds regime change as Owen enjoys life in the bubble
		Rakhsh will coordinate Iranians activities, inside and outside, toward the change of regime in Iran and provide the required support in controlling the vacuum...
		What with all the Cheney hullabaloo, you might not have noticed, but it looks as though the US government is getting back into the "regime change" business.
	www.wikiverse.org /regime-change (687 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Time for regime change in Tehran
		At home, meanwhile, the Iranian regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continues to prove that elections are not necessarily evidence of democracy.
		Washington should be seizing every opportunity to identify the Khomeinists who rule Iran as illegitimate despots, and to make the case that their downfall is essential to the repair of the Middle East.
		If the United States explicitly called for regime change in Tehran and backed up that call with diplomatic and financial support for the pro-democracy resistance, Iranians would respond with courage and resolve.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/03/11/time_for_regime_change_in_tehran (681 words)

	Asia Times
		As acknowledged by the Israeli minister, a prerequisite for the project is, therefore, a new regime in Baghdad with friendly ties with Israel.
		In other words, regime change in both Iraq and Syria is the prerequisite for the project.
		As Paritzky did not mention a redirecting option, it is safe to suggest that the Israelis are also optimistic about a regime change in Syria in the near future.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/ED04Ak01.html (1100 words)

	Regime change in Iran - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A more reasonable policy would be one of regime change, as Iranian support of terror, its aggressive pursuit of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and its horrific human rights record make it a suitable candidate for our next campaign in the war on terror.
		Changing Iran's regime would go a long way toward taking pressure off our troops and diplomats as they attempt to rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq.
		Considering Iran's support for terror, its pursuit of WMD and its record of human rights abuses, the policy of the United States should be one of regime change — not by way of military invasion but by supporting internal change.
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20040107-084211-7155r.htm (793 words)

	Regime Change Begins at Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He analyzes the forces that lead to true regime change and shows what can be done to hasten it before an economic catastrophe (such as the Great Depression) forces it to happen.
		To create regime change again, it will require bold, creative strategies, uniting progressives and conservatives in a new politics, which Derber outlines in detail.
		Regime Change Begins at Home exposes the many lies the corporate regime has used to maintain itself throughout its history, from the Cold War to the Iraq war, with a particular emphasis on how the Bush administration has cynically sought to, as Condelezza Rice once put it, "capitalize on the opportunities" presented by 9/11.
	www.bkconnection.com /ProdDetails.asp?ID=1576752925&PG=1&Type=RLA1&PCS=BKP (506 words)

	JURIST - Mertus: The Law(?) of Regime Change
		Forcible regime change violates the deeply enshrined principle that people should be allowed to choose their own government.
		Armed interventions for regime change also run contrary to Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits the threat or use of force "against...
		The use of military force for regime change is in fact radically different than other kinds of U.S. intervention in recent years.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /forum/forumnew98.php (754 words)

	Paths to Peace - Nonviolent action: Regime change without bloodshed
		The researchers’ strategies for regime change stand in sharp contrast to the Bush administration’s bloody scenarios -- everything from assassination to a blitzkrieg of Baghdad -- for ousting Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
		Confusing principled nonviolence with “strategic nonviolent action” is one reason many dismiss the possibility of a bloodless overthrow of Saddam, said Peter Ackerman, chair of the board of overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Sharp’s former student.
		Because a regime depends on the population for certain goods and services, its ability to compel compliance is “not infinitely elastic.”
	www.natcath.org /NCR_Online/archives/111502/111502g.htm (932 words)

	Regime Change Cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		You are looking at the "regime change" cartoon and caricature page from the CartoonStock NewsCartoon directory, the web's biggest searchable archive of political and news cartoons.
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		Regime Change cartoon 3 - catalog reference gmdn40
	www.cartoonstock.com /newscartoons/directory/r/regime_change.asp (400 words)

	The Folly of Forcing Regime Change
		Because Washington lacks good military options to terminate the North's nuclear program, those who oppose negotiating a deal are arguing that regime change is the only basis for real resolution of the nuclear issue.
		Regime change could produce a period of chaos.
		Second, regime change in North Korea could lead to direct involvement of US, Chinese and South Korean military forces on what is now North Korean territory.
	www.nautilus.org /fora/security/0525A_Lieberthal.html (882 words)

	Empire Notes
		It was, in fact, a trial balloon attempt at "regime change." By singling out "regime targets" (explained below) for attack, the Clinton administration hoped to encourage Iraqi military commanders to stage a coup against Saddam whil he was under attack.
		It was an extremely timid attempt at regime change, just as Bush's in 2003 was an extremely bold one, but it was one nonetheless.
		The operation, planned for at least a year in advance, was an attack on the regime, attempting to make use of the intelligence acquired by the aforementioned espionage before that information became "stale." During the year of planning, the United States frequently directed inspectors to behave in ways that would create provocations.
	www.empirenotes.org /fsddesertfox.html (614 words)

	It's Time for Regime Change at the New York Times -- A BuzzFlash Editorial
		While at least half of this nation is demanding regime change for America in 2004, liberals who can't start a Sunday until they hear the thud of the New York Times hit the ground should wake up.
		It needs regime change that will re-institute the tradition of investigative reporting that uncovers the wrongs done by political figures who violate the public trust.
		It needs regime change to send reporters to the White House who can challenge WH babble that doesn't pass the smell test, instead of passing on the horse manure as news to the American public.
	www.buzzflash.com /editorial/04/06/edi04039.html (1731 words)

	Word Spy - regime change
		The phrase regime change has been used in military and diplomatic circles for many years.
		Whether it was the prospect of war with Iraq or the unabashedly euphemistic scent carried by the phrase, it struck a chord and suddenly references to regime change were everywhere you looked.
		Whether it's the retirement of a business executive, the defeat of a politician, or the firing of a coach, wags from all walks of life are planting their tongues firmly in their cheeks and referring to these leadership moves as regime changes.
	www.wordspy.com /words/regimechange.asp (509 words)

	Regime Change In Iraq
		Regime change is a nasty word to me. I have sat by and watched, George Wallace, Ian Smith, Adi Amin, Ross Barnett, General Noriega, Castro, Qadhafi, Ariel Sharon and a host of otherwise evil, hateful men rule, kill, disrespect and deny people basic civil rights, yet, we never have uttered anything about regime change.
		We would be better off having a regime change in our government and business sector.
		Invade the board rooms and kick these high paid executives to the curb and put into affect term limits for those band of thieves in DC and our State House.
	www.politicalblack.com /regime.html (611 words)

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