Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought - 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 Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought write by Daniel Unruh. This book was released on 2023-05-01. Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Talking to Tyrants examines how Greek city-states of the fourth and fifth centuries BC with democratic systems of government such as Athens communicated with kings, tyrants and oligarchs, whose political structure and ideology wholly differed from their own.
Talking to Tyrants
Talking to 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 Talking to Tyrants write by Daniel Benjamin Unruh. This book was released on 2015. Talking to Tyrants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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.
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us - 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 Tragedy, the Greeks and Us write by Simon Critchley. This book was released on 2019-03-28. Tragedy, the Greeks and Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and contradictions that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in. A work honed from a decade's teaching at the New School, where 'Critchley on Tragedy' is one of the most popular courses, Tragedy, the Greeks and Us is a compelling examination of the history of tragedy. Simon Critchley demolishes our common misconceptions about the poets, dramatists and philosophers of Ancient Greece - then presents these writers to us in an unfamiliar and original light.
On Tyranny
On Tyranny - 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 On Tyranny write by Timothy Snyder. This book was released on 2017-03-02. On Tyranny available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** ‘A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and authoritarianism look like up close’ Rachel Maddow 'These 128 pages are a brief primer in every important thing we might have learned from the history of the last century, and all that we appear to have forgotten' Observer History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people, promised to protect them from global existential threats, and rejected reason in favour of myth. European history shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary people can find themselves in unimaginable circumstances. History can familiarise, and it can warn. Today, we are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to totalitarianism in the twentieth century. But when the political order seems imperilled, our advantage is that we can learn from their experience to resist the advance of tyranny. Now is a good time to do so.
