This issue of Diplomaatia covers the last European dictators – namely, the late Slobodan Milosevic and the President of Belarus Alyaksandar Lukashenka, who has just been granted another presidential term by rigged elections.

Slobodan Milosevic died in The Hague in his prison cell in the last days of his defense against 66 different indictments for war crimes committed in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo over an eight-year period. Like his life itself, his...