Word: authoritarianism
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Nader assailed students for not fighting an administration that has "tipped too far into the authoritarian and mercantile arena...
...fear of German aggression is most salient. Despite assurances in the reunification treaty that Germany will slash its fighting force to 345,000 soldiers and renounce chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, the memory of three horrible conflagrations in the past 120 years dies hard. Notions of an aggressive and authoritarian "German character" abound...
When sanctions are imposed against authoritarian regimes, the prospects for success are little better. From Stalin's Russia to Saddam's Iraq, dictators have been able to force their disenfranchised citizens to endure economic hardship in the face of a foreign challenge. Citizens of totalitarian states have no constitutional means for translating their discontent into political change...
...case of South Africa combines aspects of a democratic and an authoritarian state. The vast majority of the population is disenfranchised, but whites enjoy parliamentary government and a modicum of rights. How can we tell how sanctions might work in such a situation...
...result would be a moral victory as well as an economic one; lower oil prices would benefit oil-importing developing nations (that's most of them) and the fledgling democracies of Eastern Europe, while striking a blow to authoritarian Gulf sheikdoms, the Soviet Union, and corrupt banana republics such as Nigeria. After bringing down the price of crude, the U.S. ought...