Word: authoritarianism
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...international economy demands that Beijing accelerate rather than ease the pain of economic liberalization - a prospect that horrifies its more security-oriented hard-liners. To have come even this far down the capitalist road, Jiang's party has abandoned much of its communist ideology, but not its often brutally authoritarian monopoly on power. That leaves sharp differences over the country's future to be played out in fierce internecine party struggles, with Jiang acting as ringmaster...
...Still, even if the leaders on both sides - hawk- vs.-dove differences in both capitals notwithstanding - need to bring the matter to a close, their room for maneuver may also be limited by domestic political concerns. China's closed authoritarian system is nonetheless complex, with a number of rival power centers competing to shape the national agenda as President Jiang Zemin acts as a ringmaster, mindful of the need to shape his own succession and also, to a degree, of Chinese public opinion. The fallout from the accidental U.S. bombing of China's Belgrade embassy two years ago also revealed...
...Though authoritarian leaders are supposed to be immune to polls and popular will, Jiang also had to worry about the Chinese public. Anger at the U.S. could easily twist into fury at him for failing to defend the motherland. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite takeout. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight." At first this incident looked like a reprise of the Belgrade embassy bombing. Anyone watching the official...
...good? In countries that have recently shed authoritarian rule, the issue is especially pressing. "It is a huge transition for the police to go from protecting the interests of the state to protecting its citizens," says Jim Curran, dean of special programs at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He and his colleagues at the school have developed a course meant to reverse the effects of years of bad police practices. Since 1994, more than 3,000 cops in 50 troubled countries have taken "Human Dignity and Policing," funded by the Department of Justice...
...good? In countries that have recently shed authoritarian rule, the issue is especially pressing. "It is a huge transition for the police to go from protecting the interests of the state to protecting its citizens," says Jim Curran, dean of special programs at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He and his colleagues at the school have developed a course meant to reverse the effects of years of bad police practices. Since 1994, more than 3,000 cops in 50 troubled countries have taken "Human Dignity and Policing," funded by the Department of Justice...