He's awesome. He's so commanding. Yeah?

So fight he did, in his own authoritarian way.

Will authoritarian mercantilism now succeed where communism failed?

When she was young, she participated in the student movement of anti authoritarianism.

Or is it crap? Is it autocratic, controlling, restrictive and untrusting and unfulfilling?

The authoritarian system will not allow the existence of a free system.

Its authoritarian political system stifles private enterprise and innovation.

Authoritarian power is good at using the Internet to monitor people.

The belief that Russians desire an authoritarian leader is also misplaced.

Imperial rule may have been authoritarian, but there were large pockets of independence from central control.

In 1989, Central and Eastern Europe embarked upon a historic transformation, from authoritarian communism to democratic capitalism.

In some cases, outright nativist, racist parties support such government or provide an even deeper authoritarian and anti democratic streak.

But, since the 2008 financial crisis, China s confidence in its authoritarian development model has grown stronger.

But during the Cold War, authoritarian capitalism, usually under military regimes, was anti Communist and very much on America s side.

Before the advent of democracy in 2000, order was imposed by the iron hand of a corrupt, authoritarian state.

Any expectations for Xi's authoritarian rule are based on their ignorance of the politics of the princelings, Xi Jinping and China.

Again and again, when it comes to discussions of Gezi and Turkish politics, we see ill informed foreign commentators falling back on the cut and paste of a dialectical confrontation between an authoritarian, secular, single party state from history and the current, elected, authoritarian government which plays to a religious base.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin s corrupt and authoritarian rule demonstrates every day, that transition is far from finished.

This elected authoritarian then starts to reduce political freedoms through tight fisted control of the media, especially television.

China s economic achievements are undeniable. But it remains an authoritarian country where the Communist Party retains its political monopoly.

Under his increasingly centralized and authoritarian rule, he has combined ultra religious nationalism with Soviet era tactics and practices.

The regime of Islam Karimov uses the arrests and closed trials to perpetuate fear and legitimize its authoritarian rule both at home and abroad.

In other words, the UN s top climate official seems to be suggesting that an authoritarian political system is better for the planet.

In contrast, in mainland China, many people defend the communist party s totalitarian rule, which leaves citizens hopeless.

Protests are rare in the authoritarian country, so the modest anti devaluation demonstrations on February 15 and 16 were a big deal.

Alternative modes of action remain limited and vulnerable, but they exist and will not disappear in an authoritarian regime, that is already a significant achievement.

Putin then proceeded to restore authoritarian rule in Russia. Today, Western leaders may well be about to repeat the same mistake with Dmitry Medvedev.

But, with Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki s government widely considered to be another authoritarian and sectarian regime, Iraq has not been able to gain any soft power.

In fact, a Singapore style approach combining a freewheeling market economy and an authoritarian regime has clearly emerged from the plenum.

On top of the uneasy political atmosphere and an overbearing surveillance state, sectarian tensions flared following violent clashes between majority Muslim Sunni and minority Ibadite communities.

After all, an authoritarian regime built around a charismatic leader requires more than middling public support if it is to avoid unrest and violence.

The answer is that Kuwait, along with many of its neighbors, has become more authoritarian in the aftermath of the region wide and domestic uprisings that started in late 2010.

For the first time since Mexico left behind 70 years of authoritarian rule, the country has a political and electoral framework that resembles those found in all modern democracies.

We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian, disciplinarian, on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no rules option.

Lurking in the background of the presidential election was fear in some quarters that a victory by Nidaa Tounes, which won a plurality in parliament, might mean a return to authoritarian rule.

The combination of authoritarian rule, extreme populism, socialist ideology, and incompetence under former President Hugo Chávez and Maduro has wreaked havoc on Venezuela.

The Vichy state s brand of authoritarian traditionalism lionized family and fatherland, with Pétain, a former military commander, serving as a kind of military king, exalted on the tribune.

The truth is that, while Deng deserves appreciation for having brought China back from the abyss of Maoism, his approach Dengism, or authoritarian developmentalism is now impeding China s prospects.

But the parliament he has in mind is a mutant, one where the authoritarian rule of the criminal clans Kuchma controls will continue, unabated, behind the facade of parliamentary procedure.

He remembered the impoverished backwater that Singapore was in the 1920 s, and now he saw the gleaming city that free enterprise together with Lee Kwan Yew s quasi authoritarian leadership had wrought.

What needed to be purged instead, postwar reformers believed, was a specific form of Japanese militarism, rooted in emperor worship, the samurai tradition, authoritarian feudalism, and so on.

The influx of refugees from Syria and Iraq is destabilizing Jordan, Lebanon, and now even Turkey, which is becoming increasingly authoritarian under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

LONDON It is a rare political speech that stops me in my tracks. But that is exactly what happened this summer when I read a remarkable address by Viktor Orbán, Hungary s increasingly authoritarian prime minister.

For example, the inherent tension between the social change that development demands and the imperative of political stability required by authoritarian rule makes the current situation unsustainable in the long run.

With Kogălniceanu's participation, the authoritarian regime established by Cuza succeeded in promulgating a series of reforms, notably introducing the Napoleonic code, public education, and state monopolies on alcohol and tobacco.