First and formost, before I address the topic of how to deal with a dictator, we need to find out what a dictator really is. A dictator is a person who has gained power to a country by force, and usually oppresses the citizens. By oppressing the citizens, the dictator takes away the peoples rights and is obviously feared, but supreme. Examples of dictators both from the past and currently are Julius Caesar of Ancient Rome and Kim Jong Un from North Korea.
Those two men are different, yet similar in many ways. In one way, Julius Caesar had fickle audience and the Romans practically worshipped him. Caesar was strong in a military area, and so his power grew from the military, to the senate, and on it's way to a dictatorship. Caesar was very arrogant, from that he disregarded laws agreed by the senate and made his own rules. On the other hand, Kim Jong Un had taken leadership from his deceased father, Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Un, a twenty-something year old, had to take over the country of North Korea with its almost-famine and nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Un and Julius Caesar have at least one thing in common: they eliminate people in their way. Literally, as Julius Caesar got rid of Flavius and Marullus for taking down decor, Kim Jong Un would sentence "enemies of the state" to a concentration camp, along with their children and grandchildren.
Now, onto the subject of how to deal with a dictator. Believe it or not, there are several ways to get rid of a dictator. For example: Assassination rebellion, protests, military force, raising awareness, and economic embargoes and sanctions. The cold truth is that most plans to overthrow a dictator end off sour. If you wanted to assassinate a dictator, the dictators followers might seek vengeance and throw the country into a civil war (Julius Caesar). Rebellions may not work, because in most cases is goes into a full out war where civilians might be killed, and yet protests can grow into riots or rebellions as well which wouldn't end well. Military force, however, is almost always used. When allied countries go against other allied countries, it's almost World War II again. As previously stated, most dictators would get rid of "enemies of the state", so they wouldn't be very happy with people spreading that they were hurting the country, rather than helping it. Economic embargoes and sanctions, however, would actually work. If you took the situation of current North Korea (crazy nuclear threats, almost famine, and young dictator) and took away their resources, where would that leave them? They would be cut off from oil, which they would desperately need. At the end, there is no one way to deal with a dictator, because it always depends on the situation, and the cause and effect.
Those two men are different, yet similar in many ways. In one way, Julius Caesar had fickle audience and the Romans practically worshipped him. Caesar was strong in a military area, and so his power grew from the military, to the senate, and on it's way to a dictatorship. Caesar was very arrogant, from that he disregarded laws agreed by the senate and made his own rules. On the other hand, Kim Jong Un had taken leadership from his deceased father, Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Un, a twenty-something year old, had to take over the country of North Korea with its almost-famine and nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Un and Julius Caesar have at least one thing in common: they eliminate people in their way. Literally, as Julius Caesar got rid of Flavius and Marullus for taking down decor, Kim Jong Un would sentence "enemies of the state" to a concentration camp, along with their children and grandchildren.
Now, onto the subject of how to deal with a dictator. Believe it or not, there are several ways to get rid of a dictator. For example: Assassination rebellion, protests, military force, raising awareness, and economic embargoes and sanctions. The cold truth is that most plans to overthrow a dictator end off sour. If you wanted to assassinate a dictator, the dictators followers might seek vengeance and throw the country into a civil war (Julius Caesar). Rebellions may not work, because in most cases is goes into a full out war where civilians might be killed, and yet protests can grow into riots or rebellions as well which wouldn't end well. Military force, however, is almost always used. When allied countries go against other allied countries, it's almost World War II again. As previously stated, most dictators would get rid of "enemies of the state", so they wouldn't be very happy with people spreading that they were hurting the country, rather than helping it. Economic embargoes and sanctions, however, would actually work. If you took the situation of current North Korea (crazy nuclear threats, almost famine, and young dictator) and took away their resources, where would that leave them? They would be cut off from oil, which they would desperately need. At the end, there is no one way to deal with a dictator, because it always depends on the situation, and the cause and effect.
