Word: authoritarianism
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...them the target of a "war on terror" akin to America's own. This is more than a little farfetched - indeed, it's an idea cultivated in no small part by Arafat himself, in the days when Israel and the U.S. were quite happy to accept him as an authoritarian strongman who would keep a tight rein rather than demand democratic accountability from...
...refrain in the first place from making promises on which he can't deliver. Nor to compromise on the Palestinian national consensus without consultation. It'll be a lot harder for Israel and the U.S. to strike a political deal with a democratically accountable Palestinian leader than with an authoritarian national symbol such as Arafat - although if they do eventually reach a deal, it might be far more durable for the democratic process that preceded...
...invalid, and indefinite detention too extreme. Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights organization Liberty, called it "the most important constitutional decision in recent history." Lacking Blunkett's personal stake in this reversal, Clarke may find it easier to manage a nimble recovery - and, perhaps, soften the authoritarian instinct of which Blunkett's Home Office was so often accused...
...dingy Belgrade office, Otpor coordinator Sikman, 32, agrees. "We are not exporting revolution," he says. "We just happen to have some experience in resisting autocrats. After all the years of fighting Milosevic, it's in our blood." Otpor won its reputation for bravely taunting Milosevic's authoritarian regime by parading a giant effigy of the Serbian strongman in a prison suit and charging people a dinar to punch it. Some 9,000 activists were jailed or detained. Since then, the group has hooked up with student protesters in Belarus, Georgia and Ghana, among other countries. Ukraine's "Pora...
...Blunkett's private pain has public importance beyond the normal ups and downs of life in Westminster. He is genuinely popular as a remarkable man who overcame blindness and poverty to reach the top of British politics. But many critics also accuse him of a deep authoritarian streak. He has introduced indefinite detention without trial for foreign terror suspects; he wants everyone to carry an identity card containing biometric identifiers; he tried to cut access to jury trials and wants to tell jurors the details of some defendants' past convictions...