The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy (Harvill Secker) (Hardback)
Short Description for The Dictator's Learning Curve It's not easy being a dictator these days. Since the end of the Cold War, dictatorships worldwide have been on the decline and those that survive have changed dramatically. This book offers insight into the way dictators are adapting to the demands of the modern world, and their insidious efforts to disguise their regimes as democracies.
Full description- Publisher: HARVILL SECKER
- Published: 06 September 2012
- Format: Hardback 352 pages
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- Categories: Politics & Government | Political Structures: Democracy | International Relations | Human Rights | 21st Century History: From C 2000 - | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9781846556906 ISBN 10: 1846556902
- Sales rank: 894,219
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Full description for The Dictator's Learning Curve
It's not easy being a dictator these days. Since the end of the Cold War, dictatorships worldwide have been on the decline and those that survive have changed dramatically. Not so long ago, blunt weapons were used to keep citizens under control, but in a globalised world connected to new media more subtle methods for preserving power have replaced yesterday's forms of intimidation. The "Dictator's Learning Curve" gives a fascinating insight into the way dictators are adapting to the demands of the modern world, and their insidious efforts to disguise their regimes as democracies. Mubarak, Ben Ali and Gaddafi may be gone, but the Arab Spring is only the latest front in a worldwide battle between freedom and oppression. In this page-turning and authoritative book, William J. Dobson illuminates the connections and differences between authoritarian regimes in places as far apart as Russia, China, Venezuela, Egypt and Malaysia. Drawing on first-hand testimony from those close to these governments and those who challenge them - from incarcerated dissidents, student revolutionaries, to Serbian and American 'trainers in nonviolent revolution' - Dobson shows that we are witnessing an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy.
