Autocracies do not have the same problems with terrorism and Counter Terrorism that Democracies do. This is because they do not have to consider the reaction of the people or of other governments. There was a rumor during the 1980's that 4 Soviet diplomats were kidnapped, by an unnamed terrorism group in Lebanon. You may remember that during the same period westerners and especially diplomats were prime targets for terrorist kidnappings. Well the story goes that the Soviets kidnapped the brother of the leader of that particular terrorist group and shipped him back a piece at a time. Needless to say those 4 soviet diplomats were released immediately and unharmed. It really does not matter if the story is true of not, because it served its purpose. No Soviet representatives were bothered again. Democracies can not do that. The citizens would revolt, if they found out or even thought that there elected officials were doing the same anything like that.

The same thing goes for combating terrorism domestically. In Countries like the old Soviet Union, it you were even suspected of anything, your phone could be tapped, and you could just disappear in the middle of the night. In democracies such as the United States you must have a court order, thus some proof of suspicion, to get a phone tapped. The citizens, would go crazy if the police stated kidnapping people off the street during the night, even if they are terrorists.

     Autocracy is the ideology and system of government supporting rule by an autocrat.  The idea for this system stemmed from  absolutism.  An example of this system is the modern Dictatorship.

     Democracy is a form of government in which a substantial proportion of the citizenry directly or indirectly participates in ruling the state.  It is thus distinct from governments controlled by a particular social class or group (Aristocracy or Oligarchy) or by a single person (Despotism; Dictatorship; Monarchy).  In a direct democracy citizens vote on laws in an assembly, as they did in ancient Greek city-states and do today in New England towns.  In an indirect democracy citizens elect officials to represent them in government; representation is typical of most modern democracies.  Today the essential features of democracy, as understood in the Western world, are that citizens be sufficiently free--in speech and assembly, for example--to form competing political parties and that voters be able to choose among the candidates of these parties in regularly held elections.

     An autocrat is a ruler with nearly unrestrained political power, whose claim to legitimacy rests on dynastic, ideoligical, or religious principles.

     Absolutism is a political system that concentrates power in the hands of one person or a group of persons who have almost unlimited authority.  History is replete with tyrants and dictators, but the notion of absolutism became prominent in Europe during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries when monarchs were struggling to wrest power from groups such as the church and the nobility and to create national states.  The most famous absolutist was Louis XIV of France, who is said to have declared that he himself was the state: "L'etat, c'est moi." Others were the Tudor and Stuart rulers of England and Frederick the Great of Prussia