| All current Arab autocracies, like Mr Hussein's, centre on tight networks of one clan, sect or class. |
| According to the magazine, people living in low-income democracies live, on average, nine years longer than their counterparts in autocracies. |
| But autocracies suffer setbacks too, and usually for one overwhelming reason. |
| And states in transition are more likely than either stable democracies or autocracies to become involved in wars. |
| It's an anarchic assemblage of petty autocracies with numerous additional charismatic nobles advising the autarchs. |
| Regardless, we must remember that, while we are at war with no democracy, we have had to intervene in a lot of autocracies in the last twenty years. |
