The New Despotism John Keane Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Politics - Current Affairs

An Australian Book Review Best Of The Yeara Disturbing In-Depth Exposé Antidemocratic Practices Despotic Governments Now Sweeping World One Day They’ll Be Like Us That Was Once West’s Complacent And Self-Regarding Assumption About Countries Emerging From Poverty Imperial Rule Or Communism But Many Have Hardened Into Something Very Different Liberal Democracy: What Eminent Political Thinker John Keane Describes As A New Form Despotism He Warns We May More Them Drawing On Extensive Travels Interviews Lifetime Thinking Democracy Its Enemies Shows How Russia China Through Central Asia To Middle East Europe Mastered Formidable Combination Tools Threaten Established Ideals Power-Sharing They Mobilize Rhetoric Win Public Support For Workable Forms Government Based Patronage Dark Money Steady Economic Growth Sophisticated Media Controls Strangled Judiciaries Dragnet Surveillance Selective Violence Against Their Opponents Casting Doubt Such Fashionable Terms Dictatorship Autocracy Fascism Authoritarianism Makes Case Retrieving Refurbishing Old Term “Despotism” Make Sense These Regimes Function Endure Cooperate Regionally Globally Draw Strength Each Other’s Resources While Breeding Global Anxieties Threatening Values Institutions Montesquieu In Eighteenth Century Stresses Willing Complicity Comfortable Citizens All Trends Worries Are Closer Home Than Care Admit Σελίδες: 320 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0512 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm