Dictators and autocrats : : securing power across global politics / / Klaus Larres.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxon, UK ;, New York, NY : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.