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Dictators and autocrats : securing power across global politics / / Klaus Larres
Dictators and autocrats : securing power across global politics / / Klaus Larres
Autore Larres Klaus
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 321.9
Soggetto topico Dictators - History
Authoritarianism - History
ISBN 1-00-310050-3
1-003-10050-3
1-000-46755-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910774749303321
Larres Klaus  
Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2021]
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations : Threats and Challenges
Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations : Threats and Challenges
Autore Larres Klaus
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (272 pages)
Disciplina 363.325
Altri autori (Persone) HofTobias
Collana Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World Ser.
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 9783030833473
9783030833466
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- *** -- 2 The Transatlantic Alliance and Terrorism: Aligning Responses and Cooperation to Threats and Challenges -- Post-Caliphate ISIS: A Continuing International Terrorist Threat -- ISIS's Pioneering Use of Social Media -- Al-Qaeda Über Alles -- Conclusion -- 3 The Dynamics of Entangled Political Violence: From the Greensboro Massacre (1979) to the War on Terror (2001) -- Terrorism During the Cold War -- Terrorism in the Post-Cold War Era -- The Struggle for Political Legitimacy -- The Essence of the Nature of Terrorist Violence -- 4 The Rise of the Right: Terrorism in the U.S. and Europe -- Right-Wing Terrorism in the Postwar Period -- Reactionary Terrorism -- Millenarian Terrorism -- Right-Wing Terrorism and Transnationalism -- Right-Wing Terrorism Today -- What Is "New" About Today's Right-Wing Terrorisms? -- Conclusion -- 5 The Recalibration of Force in International Counterterrorism, 2010-2020 -- The Case of the United Kingdom -- Reform of International Counterterrorism in 2010 -- The Challenge Posed by Islamic State to UK Counterterrorism -- Balancing Clausewitz's Trinity via Technological `Silver Bullets' -- The Ongoing Problem of Projecting Other Forms of State Power to Enhance Governance -- The Principle of Substitution: Using Proxies to Achieve UK Counterterrorism Objectives -- Conclusion -- 6 Counterterrorism in Europe: Discord and Disorder -- Methodology -- European Exceptionalism -- Transatlantic Convergence -- Methodological Nationalism -- Conclusion -- 7 Difficult or Impossible? U.S.-China Cooperation, Counterterrorism, and Peaceful Co-existence from 9/11 to the Biden Administration -- The Deterioration of Relations with China under Obama and Trump -- War Scares, Tension Over Xinjiang, and a Lack of Imagination to Co-Exist.
The Biden Administration: Cooperation or Further Tension? -- U.S.-Chinese Counterterrorism Cooperation After 9/11 -- Counterterrorism Cooperation with China: The Obama and Trump Years -- Conclusion -- 8 It's Getting Harder to Do: Countering Terrorist Use of the Internet -- Internet Chat Rooms and Message Boards -- Social Media Platforms -- Cooperation with Law Enforcement -- Lessons from the Saudi Airman Terrorist Attack in 2019 in Pensacola Florida -- Internet Messaging Applications -- The Paris Attacks of November 2015 -- Calls for IMAs to Provide Encrypted Messages to Law Enforcement -- Exploiting Cybersecurity Weakness in IMAs -- Anonymous Websites -- Summary and Conclusion -- 9 Terrorist Exploitation Points in the International Financial System: Major Vulnerabilities in the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Framework. Avenues for Transatlantic Cooperation -- Background on International Consensus on AML/CFT -- Defining Terrorist Financing -- Distinction from Money Laundering -- Comparative Definitions of Terrorist Financing -- Trade-based Money Laundering ("TBML") -- Recommendations on Transatlantic Cooperation to Combat TBML -- Beneficial Ownership -- Recommendations on Transatlantic Cooperation to Improve Transparency in Beneficial Ownership -- Cryptocurrency -- Opportunities for Criminal and Terrorist Abuse of Cryptocurrencies Are Real -- U.S. Government Response to Cryptocurrency Risks -- The FATF Response to the Challenges of Cryptocurrency -- Recommendations for Transatlantic Cooperation Regarding Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies -- Conclusions -- 10 Transatlantic "Torture Taxis" and the Problem of Legal Accountability: The Case of North Carolina -- North Carolina's Role in Post-9/11 US Torture -- "Extraordinary Rendition": A Global Gulag -- RDI: Two Parallel Tracks for Rendition Aviation.
State and County Officials' Attitudes Toward Aero -- The Challenges-The Legal Framework Prohibiting Torture and Extraordinary Rendition -- International Legal Norms -- Domestic Law -- U.S. Courts and the State Secrets Privilege -- Non-US Courts and Accountability Jurisdiction -- Australia and the U.K Courts and Accountability Jurisdiction -- Implications for the United States and the State Secrets Privilege -- The NCCIT-A New Approach to Connecting the Local to the Global -- Conclusion -- 11 Concluding Remarks -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910510557903321
Larres Klaus  
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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