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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774749303321

Autore

Larres Klaus

Titolo

Dictators and autocrats : securing power across global politics / / Klaus Larres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-00-310050-3

1-003-10050-3

1-000-46755-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

321.9

Soggetti

Dictators - History

Authoritarianism - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: dictators and autocrats: a global phenomenon -- Abstracts -- Part I The notorious three -- 1 Joseph Stalin: autocrat par excellence (1878-1953) -- 2 Adolf Hitler: from democracy to dictatorship (1889-1945) -- 3 Mao Zedong: communist Party dictatorship (1893-1976) -- Part II Pathbreaking autocrats of the twentieth century -- 4 Fidel Castro: from grassroots dictatorship to Communist autocracy (1926-2016) -- 5 Augusto Pinochet: the emergence of one-man rule in Chile (1915-2006) -- 6 Robert Mugabe: ruthless authoritarian who preferred democratic clothing (1924-2019) -- 7 Joseph Kabila: the "Raïs" of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1971) -- 8 Hugo Chavez: was he an autocrat? (1954-2013) -- 9 Lee Kuan Yew: autocracy, elections, and capitalism (1923-2015) -- Part III Twenty-first-century autocrats: the major powers -- 10 Vladimir Putin: Russia's neo-patrimonial façade democracy (born 1952) -- 11 Xi Jinping: the rise of an authoritarian leader (born 1953) -- 12 Narendra Modi: elected authoritarian (born 1950) -- 13 Donald J. Trump: the authoritarian style in American politics (born 1946) -- Part IV Twenty-first-century autocrats: other influential autocrats -- 14 Ali Hosseini



Khamenei: routinizing revolution in Iran (born 1939) -- 15 The Assad Dynasty: quo vadis Damascus? (Hafiz: 1930-2000 -- Bashar: born 1965) -- 16 Kim Jong Un: rise to power and leadership style (born 1984) -- 17 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: the one and only Egyptian dictator (born 1954) -- 18 Prayuth Chan-o-Cha: from the barracks to the ballot box (born 1954) -- 19 Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (a.k.a. "MBS"): king in all but name (born 1985) -- 20 Viktor Orbán and János Kádár: a post-Communist and a Communist autocrat in Hungary. A comparative analysis (Kádár: 1912-1989.

Orbán: born 1963) -- 21 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: from "illiberal democracy" to electoral authoritarianism (born 1953) -- 22 Rodrigo Duterte: macho populism and authoritarian practice (born 1945) -- 23 Jair Bolsonaro: beyond the pale, above the fray (born 1955) -- Index.