These institutions were authoritarian and constituted the foundation of Egypt's nondemocratic politics for the ensuing 60 years.
The controversy also highlights the challenges Egypt's new leaders face as they pursue a strategy that alters some features of Mr. Mubarak's authoritarian state, while its foundations remain.
Whether Mr Assad is willing to make these changes, and whether he can do so without undercutting the foundations of his authoritarian regime, is unclear.
Together, they created the foundations of China's authoritarian system.
Although more research may be necessary before implementing leadership development program, using authoritative authoritarian, permissive or neglecting parenting skill development as the foundation to understand the type of leadership development may prove to be a successful method.
But if he routinely privatized what previously were public events, Shapiro said, "it would threaten our democratic foundations by providing an avenue for closed, authoritarian governance".
Then we export the refugees again (to Turkey), and then we import authoritarian values from Turkey, which is now killing one of the foundations of the European project – free speech.
But meanwhile the systemic issues that have contributed to the problems in the real world such as corruption, unaccountability and a total lack of transparency continue to fester, destabilising the foundations of authoritarianism.It is not inconceivable that the entire authoritarian edifice may eventually founder, hastened perhaps by some huge domestic crisis.
The New Republic even went so far as to call ours a potentially "authoritarian" moment a grave warning that makes it sound like the very foundations of America are being eroded.
World leaders spent much of yesterday grimacing at each other on Skype after news broke that North Korea's authoritarian regime had built a new weather machine, one capable of shaking the very foundations of the Earth.
