Word: autocrats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more land near the Gaza Strip. Whether or not he can coax Arafat into such a deal is an open question. But while Barak may take a little flak for going over the head of his foreign minister, Arafat has no such problems ? the Palestinian leader is a legendary autocrat...
When protesting students and street mobs finally drove Suharto, Indonesia's long-serving President, from office a year ago, he stood meekly to the side as his successor, B.J. Habibie, took the oath of office. Then Suharto slipped quietly from view. But the onetime autocrat has been far busier than most of his countrymen realize. In July 1998 the U.S. Treasury's attention was caught by reports that a large sum of money linked to Indonesia had been shifted from a bank in Switzerland to one in Austria. As part of a four-month investigation that covered 11 countries, TIME...
Above all, Milosevic is a crafty autocrat. He relies exclusively on his own judgment, and little is done without his consent. While other institutions of state exist--a government, an elected Chamber of Citizens, ministries--he has limited their capacity to function. Only the police force works--an organization full of "his guys" that is exhausting in its myriad forms of harassment. The state is Slobodan Milosevic...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian prime minister Mahathir wanted to teach the West a lesson about economics. Instead, East Asia's most irrepressible autocrat is showing Americans how not to manage a sex scandal -- hard though that may be to imagine...
...Mahathir?s plan is easy to dismiss as the folly of an economically inept autocrat. But by going through with it, Mahathir has drawn a line in the sand: It?s him against the barbarians. And in this age where economic and political ideology have become inextricably entwined, the stakes are high. Mahathir evidently dreams of an Asia resurgent on its own terms, reborn in its own image, not that of the West. If his course succeeds, and Malaysia recovers, the rest of the region could follow his example and pull disastrously back from necessary economic reforms. At worst...