Word: authoritarianism
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...kidnapped from Japan by the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1973, two years after an unsuccessful presidential campaign. After that election, he accused the victor. Park Chung Hee. of vote fraud, and was viewed as a threat to the increasingly authoritarian Park regime...
Decades ago, a controversial novel stirred England and America. Its action took place in 1984, and its theme was the encroachments of a future authoritarian state. The book was The Napoleon of Notting Hill, written in 1904, when George Orwell was an infant. The author was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, a man perpetually in advance of, and behind, his time...
Under one of the most repressive and authoritarian regimes history has known. Sakharov appears oblivious to the danger of official retribution for his statements. As another dissident scientist writes...
...launched its own non-credit course. "Racism and American Law." George E. Bisharat, a leading member of the coalition, characterized the course as alternative in two respects: "It's an alternative course to the other Third World civil rights courses, and offers an alternative format to the highly formal authoritarian pedagogy [of most law classes...
What's more, all-too-evident ideological tendencies leave Nixon smelling of the Worst sort of moral arrogance. Summoning a strong dose of roundabout logic, he finds it necessary to justify his rather rosy conclusions about leaders like the Shah or Sadat. "We may not like authoritarian rule," he writes predictably, "but for many countries there simply is no practical alternative to their present stages" Perhaps Nixon is indeed right to suggest potential pragmatic and philosophical pitfalls which foreign policies face in trying to follow idealistic, human rights based programs. But in the process, indeed throughout the book, Nixon betrays...