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He has a mean streak in him as evidenced by his high-handed authoritarian manner and disdain for the natural environment.
Meanwhile, he finds a mean countryman(J Carrol Naish) craving reward and is pursued by an authoritarian officer(Pedro Armendariz).
Strasberg's authoritarian style was legendary as he watched the actors perform scenes and monologues and then proceeded to psychoanalyze the actors and their choices.
Appeasement toward the authoritarian regime in Russia can apparently be bought.
Political scientists stopped predicting the CPC’s collapse and began asking instead why the one-party authoritarian state has been so resilient, and whether the period of reform and opening up had come to an end.
In short, even when the Chinese tapestry featured a reformist weft, it was always woven into an authoritarian warp.
In Xi’s “New Era,” it is the authoritarian strand that is dominant.
For decades, the US government has supported programs to foster independent media in authoritarian, resource-deprived, or dysfunctional countries.
The interdependence of all states – large or small, weak or powerful, democratic or authoritarian – has become the organizing principle of today’s international security system.
No serious institution would ever allow its transactions to be verified by an anonymous cartel operating from the shadows of the world’s authoritarian kleptocracies.
Winning power is one thing; but it is another matter to exercise power effectively, while avoiding the authoritarian tendencies that can emerge under extraordinary circumstances.
And, indeed, authoritarian governments in China, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere have used the new technologies to try to control information.
In fact, a Singapore-style approach – combining a freewheeling market economy and an authoritarian regime – has clearly emerged from the plenum.
But the stubborn inertia of authoritarian regimes only encourages radicalization, so there is a clear need for a gradual process of liberalization.
Nor can democracy be advanced if authoritarian regimes are supported simultaneously merely because - like Saddam Hussein's Iraq - they are secular and anti-Islamist.
For many reasons, things did not work out that way, as India became economically statist, for a time politically authoritarian, and geopolitically closer to the USSR than US officials liked.
But in any authoritarian country, change creates risk.
But, since the 2008 financial crisis, China’s confidence in its authoritarian development model has grown stronger.
And, if the military loosens the reins, the Muslim Brotherhood could take over and form its own authoritarian, non-representative regime.
But, though Chinese government always was authoritarian, it was not always as corrupt as it is now.
Imperial rule may have been authoritarian, but there were large pockets of independence from central control.
On one side is Assad’s minority Alawite tribe, which over the years has attracted secular Sunnis to share in the spoils of a one-party, authoritarian state.
So it is, in a way, and in the hands of authoritarian regimes, genetic selection could resemble the evils of earlier forms of eugenics, with their advocacy of odious, pseudoscientific official policies, particularly concerning “racial hygiene.”
And the West’s response to Putin’s return to the presidency could have a marked effect on whether he presses for liberalizing reforms and survives, or follows his KGB-honed authoritarian instincts and stokes further protest.
He bridged the old authoritarian tradition of one man making all political (and almost every other) decision of consequence, with a new openness in word and deed that helped convince the world that Yeltsin and the Russian people had become dedicated followers of democratic fashion.
Yeltsin’s inability over the past six years to choose a clear policy path and stick to it corresponds to these two sides of his nature: one authoritarian, the other a reformer.
Instead, their ideas got trampled by the old authoritarian lusts.
In order to justify their authoritarian rule and camouflage from the Russian public their massive theft of the country’s resources, the global kleptocrats have already convinced ordinary Russians that they are surrounded by ruthless enemies who are trying to dismember and destroy Russia.
In 1993, after the Oslo agreements, the Palestinian Authority established under Yasir Arafat became another militarized authoritarian regime, very much like Syria and Egypt, and did nothing to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian refugees.
But during the Cold War, authoritarian capitalism, usually under military regimes, was anti-Communist and very much on America’s side.
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