Word: authoritarianism
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...South Korea's resurrection has been an economic miracle, the country has been slower to mature politically. A succession of authoritarian rulers transformed the nation into the world's 13th largest trader -- but at great cost to personal freedom. The first truly free elections in 27 years were held in 1987, when Roh beat a divided opposition by pledging to support democracy...
...most of them defended in the name of the threat from the north. It is still a crime to give any support to North Korea, even to write or paint about it. Suspected subversives are routinely beaten, and the government keeps politicians under surveillance. While these remnants of the authoritarian past have severely tested U.S. support, Washington now believes Seoul is on the right track...
...victorious league, one of the first orders of business will be to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. She alone has the moral stature to press for the end to authoritarian rule and to halt the political factionalism that brought the military to power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain...
...accomodation sometimes granted. The executive board must chart a course for the club that involves as many Republicans at Harvard as possible without attempting to force unanimity among its ranks. We Republicans are not members of some corporatist movement and do not have to march in step behind an authoritarian few. We should not be in the business of presenting a united front to combat an imaginary leftist enemy...
...Authoritarian regimes in Africa begin to give way to multiparty systems. -- Albania eases its Stalinist grip. -- A Soviet Communist Party official reflects on nationalism's silver lining...