The New Despotism
The New Despotism A disturbing in-depth expos of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world.One day they'll be like us. But many have hardened into something very…
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The New Despotism
A disturbing in-depth expos of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world.One day they'll be like us. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. That was once the West's complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism.
They mobilize the rhetoric of democracy and win public And one day, he warns, we may be more like them.Drawing on extensive travels, interviews, and a lifetime of thinking about democracy and its enemies, Keane shows how governments from Russia and China through Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe have mastered a formidable combination of political tools that threaten the established ideals and practices of power-sharing democracy.