Word: authoritarianism
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...surprising that the hawks on the Bush team are not much moved by Kim's "Sunshine Policy." Many Bush people served in Republican administrations that backed the authoritarian South Korean regimes that kept Kim Dae Jung imprisoned for his political beliefs, and they're unlikely to be comfortable with the same Kim Dae Jung as a popular South Korean president elected on promises of pursuing reunification with the Stalinist holdout to the North. Some Bush people were even whispering a comparison to Israel's deposed prime minister Ehud Barak, suggesting that Kim was pursuing peace with undue haste. Still, while...
...Provence. Paris, where he lived for eight years before moving to Sag Harbor, N.Y., in 1993, remains for him the center of Western civilization, the "consolation for life's difficulties," and his books always go back there. At the same time, he regards France as a land residually authoritarian, where citizens are expected to fill out mysterious forms and the fear of police and politicians lingers in the heart...
...demise spells trouble for the Palestinian leadership. After all, if Arafat is clearly unable to secure an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza through negotiations, much less give Palestinians his promised state with Jerusalem as its capital, a growing number of Palestinians may begin asking what his authoritarian and notoriously corrupt administration has done for them lately...
What is even more disturbing is that in reinventing Rwandan society, the RPF sometimes relies on the same authoritarian structures that made the genocide possible in the first place. Forget the stereotypes of "tribal chaos" and "failed states" that are used to describe the massacres. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to slaughter their neighbors every day for three months required a dense, centralized network of administration...
...their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class were patting themselves on the back for spreading democracy into hitherto authoritarian climes, Kaplan was prepared to question democracy's significance in understanding the global dynamic. Indeed, Kaplan sees the anarchy of sub-Saharan Africa as but a preview of the fate that awaits the industrialized world...