{"product_id":"dictators-and-autocrats-securing-power-across-global-politics-paperback","title":"Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power Across Global Politics - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKlaus Larres\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKlaus Larres\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eChurchill's Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eUncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Threat of a United Europe\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Global Politics: Actors and Themes in International Affairs \u003c\/em\u003e(co-edited).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 430\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160186228871,"sku":"9780367607876","price":100.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5f7d09ffda07b16174cb4199353a07bc.webp?v=1733272311","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dictators-and-autocrats-securing-power-across-global-politics-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}