Authoritarianism
Along with totalitarianism and democracy, authoritarianism is one of the main types of political regimes or systems. Though different variants exist, all authoritarian systems share c...
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Authoritarian rulers are violating human rights around the world and getting away with it largely because the U.S., European and other established democracies accept their claims that merely holdin...
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ISLAMABAD, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Until this year the greatest
threat President Pervez Musharraf faced was from al Qaeda
assassins who have tried at least three times to kill him. Not only did the gene...
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A Southeast Asian political giant, former Indonesian President
Suharto, who died Sunday at age 86, shaped and ruled his country for
32 years through ruthless but quiet authoritarianism.
Su...
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Minsk (dpa) - The authoritarian-ruled state of Belarus expelled a
US humanitarian aid worker because an evangelical Christian group
employed him, the Belapan news agency rep...
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Astana/Moscow (dpa) - Kazakhstan's authoritarian President
Nursultan Nazarbayev has consolidated his grip on power via a series
of constitutional amendments that will allow ...
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Jakarta (dpa) - The Indonesian Constitutional Court revoked
Tuesday a controversial law used by former authoritarian president
Suharto to imprison critics during his three d...
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Minsk (dpa) - A Belarusian judge has ordered an ethnic Pole to be
jailed ten days and fined for swearing at a policemen, the Belapan
news agency reported Thursday.
...
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The Venezuelan government rejected comments by a senior U.S. official who called President Hugo Chavez a threat to democracy, saying they revealed that Washington's overtures for rapprochement were...
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Blowing whistles and waving flags, hundreds of Venezuelans protested Tuesday against a congressional measure that would grant President Hugo Chavez the power to pass laws by decree in areas from th...
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Authoritarianism
Group pans authoritarian rule
