Sentences with phrase «many 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.

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

Actually you are merely describing an authoritarian state.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aside from the enormous differences between Cuba and Myanmar in population, the nature of low - lying and flooded villages and terrain, the force of the cyclone, etc., please be aware that Myanmar is an ally of Socialist / Communist China and is an authoritarian state.

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.

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

But the converse may also be true: as more things are done for the public good, like Saving the Planet, the greater the erosion of individual liberty, and the more authoritarian the state becomes in enforcing the social order.

The dark irony here is that, while very general risk - induced doubts in the benevolence of the promises of governments to protect their citizens lead to criticisms of the inefficiency of scholarly and state authorities, critics are blind to the possibilities of erecting (or expanding) the authoritarian state on this very inefficiency... Central, however, are not, as with Huntington, traditional religiously grounded «civilizations», but opposing risk belief religions.

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

Not exact matches

The coup attempt failed within a day, and Erdogan was quick to use the opportunity to solidify his already increasingly authoritarian rule by implementing a three - month state of emergency, temporarily suspending the European Convention on Human Rights, and removing tens of thousands of employees from military and government positions.

An avowed socialist, though in his own words not of the «authoritarian communist» kind, Sanders is so far the only Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State.

And then we have the president using language that really is not becoming of the United States president, calling the press the enemy of the people, to see his term «fake news» used by authoritarians everywhere to justify cracking down on dissent.

But they are going to have to dismantle some of their welfare state, create labour market flexibility, stop being terrorized by organized labour and the farmers, accept real austerity in the offender countries, abandon this imbecility about leading the world, raise the birth rate and develop less meddlesome and authoritarian institutions.

Isn't that among the most likely scenarios for the United States turning into an authoritarian security state?

Trump on Wednesday conceded differences on North Korea with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who advocates keeping open the possibility of negotiations with Kim's authoritarian government.

State propaganda and censorship by authoritarian regimes remains the biggest threat to a free press.

In the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.»

This anti-Bitcoin memo, which is not up for a vote as a referendum by the citizens of New Jersey, is an authoritarian decree by a totally unaccountable arm of the state.

Among the most worrying trends, according to the State Department, are «authoritarian governments that restrict their citizens» ability to practice their religion.»

They think the United States should stand up to Chinese bullying of its East Asian neighbors and Russian bullying of its European neighbors and Iranian support of terrorism and whatever other authoritarian threat is running wild — all at the same time, if necessary.

People are free to worship as they please in a true Islamic state but there are none today, just a bunch claiming to be so while running authoritarian regimes.

We can point to the polish democratic opposition which led to the advent of the Solidarity movement, to the discourse generated by the «Second Left» in France in the mid-1970's and afterward, to thinking of the originally West German «Greens,» to the forces that have led the transformation from authoritarian regimes to fragile democracies in Latin America, to the complex network of organizations behind the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe.

A successful conclusion to this debate may result in a substantive resistance to the Obama / Democrat regime, which is working tirelessly to render the United States a third world country operating under an authoritarian government.

islam authoritarian totalitarian misogynistic supremacist conformist dogma & ideology desperately needs criticism absolutely needs to be confronted islam by definition is no separation between state and religion it deserves no respect the vast majority of the muslim world is repressive and unstable is this because of a tiny radical minority?

We need to recognise we have a different electorate and to recognise we became too authoritarian in the way we thought about the state, too casual in the way we thought about the state.

China, for example, «had everything to gain by opening up to the world» and although it sounded a tad like a Cameron cliché, one supposes he was hinting at a reciprocal arrangement: China's acceptance of free trade will offer opportunity and prosperity to all its citizens yet will equally be a sort of glasnost period where civic consciousness grows together with economic prosperity, and will thus engender reforms to the currently ossified and authoritarian Chinese state.

Cameron blurted out some authoritarian rubbish about how important it was that the state could see people's communications and only bothered to check whether it was possible afterwards.

There is a sense in which the two economic systems [free market capitalism versus state - driven capitalism] are ideological opponents; there is discussion of whether the authoritarian economic model is better able than the United States» to deliver positive outcomes.

Many worry that authoritarian politicians are using the heightened state of alarm to smuggle in draconian new pieces of legislation, not least on media freedom - although on that matter the media handed politicians most of the weapons they would need to challenge them due to their catastrophic mishandling of events following the Charlie Hebdo attack.

This thesis argued that a stronger, more authoritarian, social state was needed for Britain to free up markets and allow greater reins for capitalism.

And how contemptible for the British state to have reduced itself to the level of an authoritarian regime, without even a recent terrorist attack to excuse it.

She specialises in Chinese and Russian politics and state - media relations under authoritarian rule.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

Many oil or mineral rich monarchies or authoritarian regimes use nationalized / royalty owned oil and / or mineral wealth to dramatically limit domestic taxation and to fund a welfare state for average citizens, sometimes with straight cash dispersals, sometimes with heavily subsidized prices for certain essentials of life, and sometimes by heavily subsidizing services like health care and education.

The Pakistani state's organic linkages with the American establishment have been a vital pillar of support to authoritarian regimes and it remains to be seen whether the recent coldness between the two countries has resulted in any kind of weakening in these links.

I agree that the state is much too authoritarian almost resembling the situation in the old Eastern block countries, especially now that the role of the police has become politicised and for an open democracy to exist this needs to be addressed.

The social policy approach may be fruitful in studying other authoritarian regimes, as it provides a window into often invisible complex relationships between the state and non-state actors.