We could classify it as National
Conservative but somehow that category doesn't fit
as neatly there.
The Iranian leadership, for example, does have transnational revolutionary
goals for the spread of Islamic ideals -- a hard problem.
Maybe this is some new type, limited at the moment only a
few countries, but it might become more important in the Muslim world.
Too soon to tell. And there's a third
category which we can just call: enabled predators.
They may carry the title of president and say they're in charge of a
democratic republic, but if you look at the rule of someone like Robert Mugabe
in Zimbabwe, it's hard not to just simply see them as these are dictators
who are simply looting the instruments of their state and looting their countries,
to dignify this with an ideological title
like National Conservative does them too much justice.
But as we step back, it is remarkable to
notice, in the early 1990s, the degree of convergence
that's going on,
the beckoning, perhaps, of a new dawn in which the era of
great power conflict and the rivalry of great power blocs and
large rival empires has finally come to an end, at least come
to an end in a form in which we knew it before.