From Authoritarianism to Democracy? The Future of Political Regimes

... Kuznetsov: The Middle East: Postmodernism Is Over But the 21 st -century realities were different. An unexpected problem was that a large number of authoritarian and even totalitarian states proved that they were not what they seemed. The notion of authoritarianism turned into a banal stereotype regarded in the West as absolute evil, a category that could include a lot of totally different regimes and systems. The West’s problem was that there remained few truly authoritarian regimes based on rationality, secularism and progressive ideals. By contrast,...