Sentences with phrase «authoritarian state»

This includes democracy just as much as authoritarian states.

«So Trump is not a «despot,» but I call him a «despot's apprentice» because he's borrowing and mimicking tactics that you normally see in authoritarian states.

Some nations, including Brazil and Germany, are considering reining in internet routing to within their own borders, although such moves would play into the hands of authoritarian states and cause delays for international traffic.

The dominant parties in southern Africa maintain their hold on power through a mix of co-option and coercion and are not unlike their counterparts in other competitive authoritarian states such as Mexico, Argentina and Russia.

Even authoritarian states like Russia and China have generally agreed with global warming alarmism... despite making no real improvements in decarbonization... which is somewhat astounding given their anti-western bias.

«There could be an alliance between authoritarian states and these large, data - rich IT monopolies that would bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of state - sponsored surveillance,» Soros warned.

China is a neighboring authoritarian state whose resource endowment is small relative to its population.

Subsequent history has seen a «revenge of history», as powerful authoritarian states play an increasing role in the trade game, but refuse to play by the same rules.

E.g. Singapour is extremely non-corrupt while being a rather authoritarian state; while highly democratic Greece is lagging Israel's score by more than Israel lags all but 7 highest ranking states.

In the absence of countervailing forces, dominant groups have largely determined the direction in which the technology has developed and as a result it has reinforced the dominant neoliberal paradigm of unfettered markets and property rights buttressed by increasingly authoritarian states.

In competitive authoritarian states there is a risk that when co-option becomes less tenable coercion can increase.

Beholder 2 sees you taking on the role of a department officer in the ministry of a strict authoritarian state.

The story of how the CIA championed Abstract Expressionism at the height of the Cold War to counter Socialist Realist propaganda is well known; however, abstraction can also be mandated by religious beliefs or, in the repressive contexts of many authoritarian states, serve as a rejection of narrow - minded populism.

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In his first solo show at Greene Naftali, Peter Halley contends with the new American reality of an increasingly shameless and authoritarian state under which, despite the best efforts of an overstretched free press and an embattled political opposition, the difference between fact and fiction has become increasingly obscured.

This is especially true in more authoritarian states (one reason why I'm heavily skeptical of Vidal's ideas visavi USA - American polity was more dis - united and fractured by US's foreign adventures than united, ever since Vietnam.

Authoritarian states like to tweak their technical infrastructure, their national laws and their firewalls to «protect sovereignty in cyberspace», as they like to say — which in practice means protecting intellectual property thieves from foreign pressure and rounding up dissidents at home.

Now, with breakdown of the socialist states, the crisis of modern liberal nation states, and upheavals in traditional or semi-traditional despotic and authoritarian states, new questions are being raised in the emerging context of global market.

Actually you are merely describing an authoritarian state.

In real life, with Russia being an authoritarian state, there are ways to thwart an observer.

It will be China: an authoritarian state.

Martin Moore of King's College, London, pointed out that elections were a newly fashionable tool for would - be authoritarian states.

V embodies the principles of rebellion from an authoritarian state, donning a mask of vilified would - be terrorist of British history Guy Fawkes and leading a revolution sparked by assassination and destruction.

Eva Green and Ed Skrein are among the stars in place for sci - fi thriller A Patriot, which is set to depict an authoritarian state separated from a world in chaos due to climate change and scarce resources.

In Berlin, there is a major shift, as the overpowering nature of that authoritarian state becomes clearer and clearer.

The book is intended as a cautionary tale about the perils of acquiescing to an authoritarian state.

With the help of exhaustive evidence from multifarious sources, Dawisha argues that Putin and his KGB cronies, terrified by the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, did everything in their power to restore the authoritarian state.

The only alternative I can see is an authoritarian state that enforces a top - down climate policy.

When we imagine a healthier future we are also imagining a more authoritarian state.»