Word: authoritarianism
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...Despite more than two decades of trade with the U.S., China remains an authoritarian state ruled by an all-powerful Communist party. And there's a furious struggle at the very top of that party over China's economic and political direction - a struggle in which hard-liners obsessed with maintaining order are currently dominant. Arch- reformer prime minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the conditions attached to WTO membership as a whip with which to dramatically accelerate the pace of economic reform, but Zhu has been increasingly marginalized over the past 18 months, particularly after President Clinton backed...
...there were other national agendas seeking recognition during that fateful Olympiad - a liberal, democratic Germany seeking to finally shed the ghosts of its authoritarian past and a small group of Palestinians convinced that only spectacular acts of violence could remind the world of the plight of their forgotten people - and the confluence of those agendas cost Alex Spitzer, as well as 10 of his Israeli teammates, their lives...
...microcosm, the upheavals of postcolonial Africa: the diaspora from stable rural societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply to stay alive. He fights what he sees as the tyranny of his parents and the authoritarian rule of the priests at his school. For a while, he idolizes Amin's power and intransigence. But this feeling fades, and the stroll he takes through anarchic Kampala, his adopted urban home, just after the overthrow of Amin in 1979 becomes a harrowing hell. Precious few first novels are as phantasmagoric...
...hold your breath - but it's really based on the economic self-interest of both countries. In fact, many sober foreign policy heads recognize that the convulsive social upheaval that will accompany the epic transformation from socialism to capitalism currently under way in China that a strong (yes, even authoritarian) state might be necessary to avert a cataclysmic collapse. Which is why electoral democracy isn't Beijing's immediate priority, and nor do serious foreign policy players believe it should...
...Morocco's most famous political refugee, Abraham Serfaty, a Marxist who spent 17 years in prison before being deported in 1991. Today Serfaty lives in a seaside villa courtesy of the palace. "Hassan II was feudal," says Serfaty. "But Mohammed VI is modern. He does not have an authoritarian disposition...