Despite Erdoğan s personal authoritarian tendencies, which are obvious, it would be misleading to regard the current protests purely as a conflict between democracy and autocracy.

The Committee encourages the State party to continue to monitor all tendencies that give rise to racist and xenophobic behaviour and to combat the negative consequences of such tendencies.

Putinism s Authoritarian Allure

The Age of Authoritarian Democracy

These biases matter because they do not jibe with the enlarged Europe of today.

The alternative is to revert to illiberal autocracy.

Unfortunately, however, that movement is marked by a tendency to look to the past.

We condemn the deviations whereby terrorist acts are used in order to discredit religions and their followers

It is past time to make those sentiments a reality more than a pledge to resolve disputes peacefully is needed.

The alarming tendencies we are seeing today may be short lived and with no serious consequences.

Russia reverted to a neo authoritarian system.

But liberal authoritarianism seems an unlikely outcome of the current revolts.

The authoritarian nature of the political regime is at the core of this fragility.

Its malaise has raised questions about whether its democratic capitalism will survive the economic challenge posed by authoritarian and quasi authoritarian regimes.

Tyrannical governments frequently gaol their political opponents.

Any of the basic proclivities that drive capitalism, on their own, are destructive of long term success.

In authoritarian regimes, policies are the direct expression of the interests of the ruler and his cronies.

Democracies have proved to be much more peaceful than authoritarian regimes and dictatorships.

Yet another totalitarian communism expanded its domination.

Now, it takes time because we it took time for all those faults in our mind, the tendencies, to build up, so it will take time to unfold them as well.

A growing number of communities are implementing effective public transportation systems although at present discouraging trends still dominate.

Although authoritarian in many respects, the empire had some democratic features.

Russia provides conclusive evidence of the impotence of authoritarian violence and disregard for the rule of law.

But there are good reasons to suspect that China s authoritarian advantage will not endure.

At a time when democracy is spreading, they remain dictatorships.

This, more or less, has been the line taken by dictatorships as well.

This stance conveniently avoided rows with oil dictators.

The real threat is to the Putin model of a corporate, authoritarian state, unfriendly to the West.

The legacy of dead dictators from vanquished totalitarian regimes should no longer be ambivalent.

Stability, based on soft authoritarianism, is the Asian way, now followed by China.

Authoritarian clientelist regimes depend on the silent assent of their populations and the loyalty of their elites.

It's real. In fact, I'll try to explain today that sync is maybe one of, if not one of the most, perhaps the most pervasive drive in all of nature.

Doubts about the future of the European project in the wake of the euro crisis could push voters away from pro European reformers and towards nationalist politicians.

The territorial and economic imperatives of empire will continue to make it difficult for Russia to develop a political system that conforms to Western norms.

What is needed, we believe, is to address the root causes of terrorism, using the art of persuasion through local approaches while resorting to diplomacy and financial and economic measures, and encouraging moderate trends.

Many different teachings are propagated by associations and other similar groups, many of which have links with the major international and subregional Islamic organizations.

The first consequence of this process has been a transition from legality to arbitrary power.

To neo conservative ideologues, it is the democratic oasis in a desert of tyrannies.

A stupid competition arose between two nightmares, the Holocaust and the Gulag, totalitarian Nazism and totalitarian communism.

Given Nigeria s history of sit tight military dictatorships, that is real progress.

Autocracies stay in power if they can divide the population and prevent organized opposition activities.

The longer they stay in power, the more violent the Islamist rebellions will be.

As always, it is easier to bring down an autocracy than to construct and consolidate a democratic regime.

Authoritarian regimes lack the institutions of conflict management that democracies provide.

Not one political force in Russia knows how to answer the challenges that soft authoritarianism has brought.