Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...callous disregard for national security evinced by those who spout entitlement talk is contemptible. At the same time, the exclusive emphasis of many conservatives on unit cohesion and effectiveness is more than slightly disquieting. Developed to its logical extreme, it can lead to--indeed has led to--truly totalitarian lengths...
...British government has already set a strong precedent by upholding the Spanish judge's extradition order and arresting the former dictator in October of 1998 while he was in London for back surgery. This sent a message to totalitarian rulers worldwide that they would be held accountable for their appalling actions. No longer could they hide behind titles or claim immunity as heads of state, as Pinochet attempted...
...This would explain the defeated tone that at times crept into his speech--his apology to the Russian people for the hardships they had suffered during his rule; the admission that he had been wrong in thinking Russia could be transformed in one sweep from its "gray, stagnant, totalitarian past to a bright, rich and civilized future." In fact, "I believed this too," he added poignantly...
...parties vie for power through the ballot box. There are some 65,000 nongovernmental organizations and approximately 900,000 private businesses where there were none a decade ago. A pluralist political system and civil society, competing in the world markets and plugged into the Internet, have emerged from a totalitarian monolith that was closed off from the outside world and implacably hostile to our values and interests...