Word: authoritarianism
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...Europe, so the FT mounted the play quietly. "It's not without precedent, this situation," Stoppard told Time. "It's very interesting that the arts in general, and theater in particular, are treated with such caution by authorities." Artistic freedoms are just one casualty of Lukashenko's 11-year authoritarian rule, which was criticized late last month by leaders of other former Soviet republics. They had gathered in Poland to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the trade-union movement Solidarity, which led Poland's revolution. That was followed by "a second wave of liberation of Europe. Freedom and democracy will...
...returns from Wednesday?s election indicate that Mubarak won hands-down, but the importance of the country?s first-ever multiparty presidential vote was that after decades of authoritarian rule, Egyptians were actually offered a choice of contenders for the top office. (Mubarak?s four previous six-year terms were affirmed by referendum rather than in competitive elections.) Although the turnout was low, many like Badawi sought to make full use of the newly sanctioned right to cast ballots for an opposition candidate. Instead of receiving the 99% or so approval he routinely received in the referendums on his presidency...
...Nonetheless, many see the election, after the fall of Saddam in 2003 and the Cedar Revolution against Syrian domination of Lebanon this year, as a further crumbling of the edifice that has guarded authoritarian regimes in the Arab world for half a century. They hope that Egyptian elections in November will produce a more representative parliament, and that voters will have a real choice in the next presidential contest, in 2011. After surveying the overflow crowd of 5,000 people at a rally in the northern city of El Mahla El Kobra, Maram Mazen, 19, a law student volunteering with...
...vivid and bitter memories of U.S. intervention in their countries-operations that sometimes included brazen assassinations -which is why the Bush Administration got burned by accusations it backed a failed coup against Chavez in 2002 (the White House denies the charge). Another is democratic legitimacy: Chavez, for all his authoritarian tendencies, is a democratically elected head of state who last year won a national recall referendum approved by international observers...
...other pro-Western governments that terrorists may regard as insufficiently Muslim. The U.S. has been pushing Mubarak to democratize. But Wayne White, a former top Middle East expert in the State Department, predicts that the Egyptian government will let terrorists goad it into overreacting. In recent years, White says, authoritarian governments in the region became convinced that "if you loosen up, you're in trouble." More worrisome: one of the groups claiming responsibility for the blasts said it has ties to al-Qaeda. "It is part of a bigger project that entails confronting America and Israel and, after that, nonmilitant...