It is not an authoritarian regime, it is a transition period .

But their economic corporatism and autocratic style are similar.

The rest of the world must not turn a blind eye to authoritarian backsliding.

No one doubts that Jiang Zemin knows how to maintain an authoritarian regime.

Understandably, the international community, which has long punished Myanmar s authoritarian regime with sanctions, remains cautious.

Twenty years after communism s fall, authoritarian capitalism has emerged as the leading challenger to the spread of democratic values.

South Korean students filling the streets of Seoul in 1986 could not have ended the authoritarian military government either.

One Serbian Twiter user referred to the 'Colorful Revolution' movement that helped bring down the authoritarian regime in Macedonia

The reasons are connected to Premier Ivica Racan's unwillingness to tackle the centers of power left behind by the regime of the late President Franjo Tudjman, whose nationalist minded party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), was voted out of office in January 2001 following Tudjman's death in December 1999.

Combine this with a tottering authoritarian regime, and something like the pre 1914 German scenario looks realistic.

Tudjman forged an authoritarian regime that blurred the distinctions between HDZ and state agencies, in particular the army and police.

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

I have met with dozens of Sudanese politicians and diplomats, and I know that the regime in Khartoum is authoritarian, self interested, and ruthless.

Authoritarian, crude, and somewhat megalomaniacal (almost as though he were a king himself), Thaksin was a Thai version of Silvio Berlusconi.

Goldman Sachs seems to not care if they are in fact giving working capital to the authoritarian drug ring that runs the country so it can stay afloat.

Russia is passing from being the Russian Federation of Boris Yeltsin to a unitary authoritarian regime under Vladimir Putin and his former KGB colleagues.

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

Even if we put aside our nationalistic sentiment , as a person who hates the violent and authoritative regime under the Chinese Communist Party, what should we do?

What much of the world sees in Putin's Russia is a neo authoritarian regime based on a state directed capitalism interlinked with the ruling bureaucracy and flanked by an immature civil society.

And, like an authoritarian parent, the US itself, despite its admonitions to its allies to pull their weight, is often loath to let go of its increasingly unruly dependents.

From the above description, we can further generalize that monster parents in Hong Kong demonstrate a more authoritarian parenting style characterised by a higher degree of control and restrictiveness.

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

We believe that authoritarian regime of President Viktor Yanukovych has been fueled by proceeds of corruption laundered via the international financial system through the network of shell companies and professional intermediaries.

In addition, many liberals, notably in Saudi Arabia, offer to work with the current regimes against the radical Islamist revolutionaries an understandable response, but one that strengthens the authoritarian status quo.

And to that end, they have signed a pact with the devil by giving various gifts to the Turkish government, embarking upon an authoritarian and repressive path of the same type that European countries have denounced in other parts of the world.

At other times, the refreshingly anti authoritarian appeal of such programs as The Simpsons is commercially exploited to strengthen global media empires, such as Rupert Murdoch's.

However, the facts of the case, the restoration and relocation of Memorial of Fame, and the responsibility of finding justice seems to be drowning in a sea of pettiness, of a kind of freedom obsessed with Saakashvili s alleged authoritarianism and megalomania.

Even China s authoritarian capitalism will someday feel the pressure, as its rural populations, who currently have little access to doctors or hospitals, eventually explode with discontent.

Today, the US and authoritarian China have mutually beneficial trade and financial ties, and have shown on occasion that they can work together on strategic issues, for example in shaping North Korea s behavior.

Forging twelve independent, proud, and, in some cases, powerful national central banks into a cohesive collective was no easy task. It would not have been possible with an authoritarian personality at the ECB helm.

The same is true of some prime ministers, like Thailand's authoritarian Thaksin Shinawatra, who now stands accused of weakening his country's democratic traditions in favor of personal rule.

While most Russians seem to realize that their country can no longer be salvaged by the Communists, many are betting on semi authoritarian rule and national revival stemming from traditional Russian values.

Only then we will know if the trade off at least made sense, even if for many it was unacceptable authentic social justice and progress in exchange for authoritarian rule, international ostracism, and a cultural desert.

Howitt, along with fellow Members of the European Parliament Eduard Kukan and Ivo Vajgl, as well as Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn released an April 22 statement saying that the government could face sanctions if it continues its authoritarian course.

Could the US ignore a country that in roughly ten years will become the world s second largest oil exporter, generating more than 200 billion annually in revenue, while increasingly being dominated by an authoritarian Shia regime that is close to Iran?