Word: authoritarians
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...Japan, where the populations desired democratic systems, emerged as successful democracies after World War II, attempts to institute democracy in places like Russia and Haiti have failed. Because of corruption in their governments and our lack of commitment to attitude adjustment, both countries have seen democracy devolve into more authoritarian regimes. Traub argues that Bush should have paid heed to these lessons in Iraq: he had to make Iraqis want democracy rather than force it upon them. In his introduction, Traub points out that 52% of the world’s population believes that the United States...
...politics. But the new state capitalists challenge that wisdom. They encourage private enterprise and foreign investment. At the same time, they retain control of certain key industries, like oil or automaking, use state support to grow these industries, and then unleash state-backed firms into the global marketplace. Mostly authoritarian regimes, the state capitalists also keep a lid on politics by using growth to co-opt their middle classes...
...Army had just broken the back of Hitler's Wehrmacht and put Moscow in control of the Baltic states (annexed at the outset of the war), Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. Having watched Central Europe transformed by Soviet military power into a patchwork of authoritarian vassal states, Western Europe was only too willing to join an all-for-one military alliance with the U.S. and Canada to even up the odds in the event of further Soviet expansionism. Nor was it surprising that decades later, those Europeans who had actually lived under the Soviet heel would race...
...Qalibaf as reformists," Abtahi says, pointing out that Qalibaf played a prominent role in quelling pro-democracy dissent during Khatami's presidency. And while perhaps not the unreconstructed revolutionary that Iran's hard-liners so admire, Qalibaf is unabashedly loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, Iran's ultimate authoritarian decision maker...
...busiest protest group during the Games. They've held at least five demonstrations in high-profile spots around the city, and each time they have been detained and deported. "What's happening in Beijing is not an indication of a new, kinder, gentler Chinese government ... a kinder, gentler authoritarian regime," says Lhadon Tethong, executive director of Students for a Free Tibet. "It's a carefully scripted and controlled image they want to project to the world...