Dictators and Autocrats Securing Power across Global Politics 1st Edition by Klaus Larres ISBN 0367607875 978-0367607876

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ISBN 10: 0367607875
ISBN 13: 978-0367607876
Author: Klaus Larres

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 Orbán 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.

Dictators and Autocrats Securing Power across Global Politics 1st Table of contents:

Part I The notorious three

1 Joseph Stalin: autocrat par excellence 

2 Adolf Hitler: from democracy to dictatorship 

3 Mao Zedong: communist Party dictatorship 

Part II Pathbreaking autocrats of the twentieth century

4 Fidel Castro: from grassroots dictatorship to Communist autocracy

5 Augusto Pinochet: the emergence of one-man rule in Chile 

6 Robert Mugabe: ruthless authoritarian who preferred democratic clothing 

7 Joseph Kabila: the “Raïs” of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

8 Hugo Chavez: was he an autocrat?

9 Lee Kuan Yew: autocracy, elections, and capitalism 

Part III Twenty-first-century autocrats: the major powers

10 Vladimir Putin: Russia’s neo-patrimonial façade democracy 

11 Xi Jinping: the rise of an authoritarian leader 

12 Narendra Modi: elected authoritarian 

13 Donald J. Trump: the authoritarian style in American politics 

Part IV Twenty-first-century autocrats: other influential autocrats

14 Ali Hosseini Khamenei: routinizing revolution in Iran 

15 The Assad Dynasty: quo vadis Damascus? 

16 Kim Jong Un: rise to power and leadership style 

17 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: the one and only Egyptian dictator 

18 Prayuth Chan-o-Cha: from the barracks to the ballot box 

19 Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (a.k.a. “MBS”): king in all but name 

20 Viktor Orbán and János Kádár: a post-Communist and a Communist autocrat in Hungary. A comparative analysis 

21 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: from “illiberal democracy” to electoral authoritarianism

22 Rodrigo Duterte: macho populism and authoritarian practice 

23 Jair Bolsonaro: beyond the pale, above the fray 

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