Word: authoritarianism
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...global tumult, a country that enjoys full employment and stability -- along with no crime, no pornography, no drugs, and no dirt to speak of -- may strike many as at least a reasonable facsimile of paradise. Singapore, long an object of curiosity for its unique blend of open economics, authoritarian politics and social engineering, is attracting attention as a model modern society. Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History?, says the "soft authoritarianism" of countries like Singapore "is the one potential competitor to Western liberal democracy, and its strength and legitimacy is growing daily." Tiny anticommunist Singapore...
...their superiors have feet of clay, but we seem to think we have been naive or apathetic citizens unless we think of them as clay from head to foot. It is also fashionable in intellectual circles to deride the police and the army as merely instruments of imperialism and authoritarian repression, a stance which makes respect for the executive branch of government even more difficult...
...dilemma can be summed up in two questions: Should authoritarian methods be used to advance the cause of democratic reform? When is the use of force justified in defense of law and order? These issues resonate deeply in a nation where totalitarian leaders used to violate basic human rights as a matter of course. Gorbachev never resolved the conflict of how to be a strong President without sliding into totalitarian rule. Yeltsin is still feeling his way. Whenever he begins to talk tough in response to turmoil in the ethnic enclaves of the Russian Federation or the latest challenge from...
...Bush clamored to be in combat -- an unrepentant draft avoider has been elected President. And Bill Clinton says one of his first official acts will be what an agonized hierarchy sees as the gravest challenge ever to military folkways. Their last refuge of traditional masculinity, of an orderly and authoritarian world of moral black and white, is to be opened to admitted homosexuals by Executive Order. The proposed change comes at the same time that a presidential report recommends another assault on the masculine mind-set: allowing women greater access to combat roles. Institutions that urged generations of adolescents...
...carefully chosen issues like aid to Russia, the need to help Somalia, and punishing Serbia for "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, the Democrat took positions slightly forward of Bush's and waited for events to squeeze the President his way. He criticized the Bush Administration for being too cozy with authoritarian regimes, such as the one in China. Each of these cases reflects Lake's view that American values and ideals should be a greater part of the foreign policy equation, in contrast to the more power- oriented realism that drove policy under George Bush and James Baker...