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The Revenge of Power - How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century (Paperback)
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Named one of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 "An authoritative
and intelligent portrait of the global spread of authoritarianism
and its dangers...what sets [this] work apart from books like
Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and Michiko Kakutani's The Death of
Truth is its unusually comprehensive armada of facts about the
international drift over the past two decades toward authoritarian
leaders, whether old-style dictators like Kim Jong Un or nominally
elected presidents like Vladimir Putin." --Kirkus An urgent,
thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy that
illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the
future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats
mushrooming around the world. In his bestselling book The End of
Power, Moises Naim examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge
of Power, Naim turns to the trends, conditions, technologies and
behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power, and
to the clash between those forces that weaken power and those that
strengthen it. He concentrates on the three "P"s--populism,
polarization, and post-truths. All of which are as old as time, but
are combined by today's autocrats to undermine democratic life in
new and frightening ways. Power has not changed. But the way people
go about gaining it and using it has been transformed. The Revenge
of Power is packed with alluring characters, riveting stories about
power grabs and losses, and vivid examples of the tricks and
tactics used by autocrats to counter the forces that are weakening
their power. It connects the dots between global events and
political tactics that, when taken together, show a profound and
often stealthy transformation in power and politics worldwide.
Using the best available data and insights taken from recent
research in the social sciences, Naim reveals how, on close
examination, the same set of strategies to consolidate power pop up
again and again in places with vastly different political,
economic, and social circumstances, and offers insights about what
can be done to ensure that freedom and democracy prevail. The
outcomes of these battles for power will determine if our future
will be more autocratic or more democratic. Naim addresses the
questions at the heart of the matter: Why is power concentrating in
some places while in others it is fragmenting and degrading? And
the big question: What is the future of freedom?
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