Word: authoritarianism
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...Alexander Lukashenko put down a protest over the weekend, and some analysts believe the dominoes could even start falling in the Kremlin's direction, though Vladimir Putin's grip seems pretty secure. "Nobody rushed to defend Akayev," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "All these post-Soviet authoritarian regimes are proving colossuses with feet of clay...
...fall guy for selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets was out of the question. Instead, President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan and put him under house arrest in his sumptuous villa. This for an act of treason so blatant and outrageous that it has few parallels in any nation, authoritarian or not. Khan's pardon was part of a cover-up. Rama Prem Freiburg, Germany Khan has confessed to leaking Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The startling revelation that he may also have provided nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other African countries has raised many...
...policy towards the Arab world since World War II was largely guided by Cold War calculations that not only forgave friendly authoritarian currents in the Middle East, but in some cases actually helped them seize power or propped them up. In most of the U.S.-friendly Arab autocracies, the citizenry is not only burning with frustration at the authoritarian and repressive nature of their governments and the stasis of the societies they rule; they are also enraged by their rulers' close relationships with Washington...
When reporters started interviewing members of the faculty after the West story surfaced, however, professors eagerly volunteered stories about Summers’ authoritarian leadership style and disrespectful demeanor...
Summers’ seemingly authoritarian style and supposed “closet conservatism” only added another unfavorable layer to his public personality. Although most of the damage that his reputation suffered in the public eye can be attributed to individual anecdotes rather than actual trends, reporters says Summers’ true character was essentially revealed in these incidents...