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Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power across Global Politics Hardcover - 2021

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Author: Klaus Larres
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In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.

The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern "soft" or populist autocrats, who are in the process of transforming once fully democratic countries into autocratic states, including Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Narendra Modi in India, and Viktor Orbn in Hungary. The authors touch on a wide range of autocratic and dictatorial figures in the past and present, including present-day autocrats, such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, military leaders, and democratic leaders with authoritarian aspirations. They analyze the transition of selected autocrats from democratic or benign semi-democratic systems to harsher forms of autocracy, with either quite disastrous or more successful outcomes.

An ideal reader for students and scholars, as well as the general public, interested in international affairs, leadership studies, contemporary history and politics, global studies, security studies, economics, psychology, and behavioral studies.

Details

Title Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power across Global Politics
Author Klaus Larres (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 430
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Date 2021-11-01
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9780367607869 / 0367607867
Weight 1.82 lbs (0.83 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.54 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Central Africa
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Cultural Region: Russian
Library of Congress subjects World politics, Power (Social sciences)
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021026588
Dewey Decimal Code 321.9

About the author

Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as Counselor and Senior Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, held the Kissinger Chair in International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and was a Fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) - German Institute for International Security and Affairs think tank in Berlin. Among his many publications are the books Churchill's Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy; Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Threat of a United Europe; and Understanding Global Politics: Actors and Themes in International Affairs (co-edited).