Modern Tyrants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Tyrants write by Daniel Chirot. This book was released on 1996-05-05. Modern Tyrants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, the twentieth century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of humankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current instances of "ethnic cleansing" remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, both revealing the forces that allow them to come to power and helping us to predict where they may arise in the future.
Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators
Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators write by Frank J. Coppa. This book was released on 2006. Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Original Scholarly Monograph
Tyrants
Tyrants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tyrants write by Waller R. Newell. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Tyrants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of tyranny from Achilles to today's jihadists, this volume shows why tyrannical temptation is a permanent danger.
Spin Dictators
Spin Dictators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spin Dictators write by Daniel Treisman. This book was released on 2023-04-04. Spin Dictators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year An Atlantic Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Politics Book of the Year How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orbán control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. Like spin doctors in democracies, they spin the news to engineer support. Uncovering this new brand of authoritarianism, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman explain the rise of such “spin dictators,” describing how they emerge and operate, the new threats they pose, and how democracies should respond. Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Peru’s Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. They cultivated an image of competence, concealed censorship, and used democratic institutions to undermine democracy, all while increasing international engagement for financial and reputational benefits. The book reveals why most of today’s authoritarians are spin dictators—and how they differ from the remaining “fear dictators” such as Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad, as well as from masters of high-tech repression like Xi Jinping. Offering incisive portraits of today’s authoritarian leaders, Spin Dictators explains some of the great political puzzles of our time—from how dictators can survive in an age of growing modernity to the disturbing convergence and mutual sympathy between dictators and populists like Donald Trump.
Tyrants
Tyrants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tyrants write by Waller R. Newell. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Tyrants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The forces of freedom are challenged everywhere by a newly energized spirit of tyranny, whether it is Jihadist terrorism, Putin's imperialism, or the ambitions of China's dictatorship, writes Waller R. Newell in this engaging exposé of a thousand dangers. We will see why tyranny is a permanent threat by following its strange career from Homeric Bronze Age warriors, through the empires of Alexander the Great and Rome, to the medieval struggle between the City of God and the City of Man, leading to the state-building despots of the Modern Age including the Tudors and 'enlightened despots' such as Peter the Great. The book explores the psychology of tyranny from Nero to Gaddafi, and how it changes with the Jacobin Terror into millenarian revolution. Stimulating and enlightening, Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror will appeal to anyone interested in the danger posed by tyranny and terror in today's world.
