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Popular Dictatorships
Shows that the most widespread and malignant dictatorships today emerge by attracting genuine popular support in societies plagued by crises.
Fallout
The picture does not tell the whole story -- Scoop the world -- MacArthur's closed kingdom -- Six survivors -- Some events at Hiroshima -- Detonation -- Aftermath.
Who Gets Represented?
An investigation of policy preferences in the U.S. and how group opinion affects political representation. While it is often assumed that policymakers favor the interests of some citizens at the expense of others, it is not always evident when and how groups' interests differ or what it means when they do. Who Gets Represented? challenges the usual assumption that the preferences of any one group—women, African Americans, or the middle class—are incompatible with the preferences of other groups. The book analyzes differences across income, education, racial, and partisan groups and investigates whether and how differences in group opinion matter with regard to political representation. P...
Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications
The first overview of US NC3 since the 1980s, Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications explores the current system, its vital role in ensuring effective deterrence, the challenges posed by cyber threats, and the need to modernize the United States' Cold War-era system of systems.
Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes
The revival of authoritarianism is one of the most important forces reshaping world politics today. However, not all authoritarians are the same. To examine both resurgence and variation in authoritarian rule, Karrie J. Koesel, Valerie J. Bunce, and Jessica Chen Weiss gather a leading cast of scholars to compare the most powerful autocracies in global politics today: Russia and China. The essays in Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes focus on three issues that currently animate debates about these two countries and, more generally, authoritarian political systems. First, how do authoritarian regimes differ from one another, and how do these differences affect regime-society relat...
In onze tijd
Filosoof en cabaretier Tim Fransen onderzoekt ons huidige tijdsgewricht De afgelopen eeuwen leek de geschiedenis zich te voltrekken van behoorlijk belabberd naar alsmaar beter. De technologische vooruitgang, de menselijke grip op de natuur en de wereldwijde verbondenheid hebben geleid tot een hoogtepunt in termen van welvaart, comfort en levensverwachting. Maar deze ontwikkelingen bleken een schaduwzijde te hebben. Technologische vooruitgang heeft steeds destructievere wapens voortgebracht. De menselijke grip op de natuur heeft geleid tot ecologische ontwrichting. En de hyperconnectiviteit legt niet alleen kwetsbaarheden bloot, maar ook tal van nieuwe manieren om elkaar dwars te zitten. Langzamerhand is onze wereld wankel geworden. Filosoof en cabaretier Tim Fransen onderzoekt ons huidige tijdsgewricht. Hij vraagt zich af: hoe heeft het vooruitgangsgeloof ons misleid. Hoe herstellen we onze maatschappelijke fundamenten? Wat betekent vrijheid nou echt? Maar ook: wat is het belang van een natiestaat in een gemondialiseerde wereld? Met behulp van verrassende denkers neemt hij de lezer op sleeptouw. Om gezamenlijk uit te komen bij nieuwe vormen van weerbaarheid en hoop.
Non-Democratic Federalism and Decentralization in Post-Soviet States
This book challenges the common perception of authoritarian regimes as incompatible with federalism and decentralization. It examines how the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan have managed to exploit federalism and decentralization as useful instruments to help them preserve control, avoid political instability, and to shift blame to the regional authorities in times of crises and policy failures. The authors explain how post-Soviet authoritarian regimes balance the advantages and risks and emphasize the contradictory role of external influences and threats to the institutional design of federalism and decentralization. Advancing our understanding of how the institutions of federali...
The Social Roots of Authoritarianism
Why are some authoritarian regimes highly competitive and others highly unified? Do they function differently? And what does it mean for our understanding of democracy and democratization? In The Social Roots of Authoritarianism, Natalia Forrat describes two models of authoritarianism: the first in which people see the state as their team leader and the other where they trust informal (non-state) leaders and see the state as a source of perks or punishment. Depending on which vision of the state is dominant in society, she argues that autocrats must use different tools to consolidate their regimes or risk a pushback. If people view the state as their team leader, autocrats rely on social con...
How Autocrats Seek Power
Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of the rise of Trump’s populist support in 2016, and his failed efforts to nullify the result of the 2020 election. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Autocracy negates both liberalism—which includes the protection of fundamental rights, the rule of law, separation of powers, and respect for specialist expertise—and democracy—which requires that the state be responsible to an electorate composed of all eligible voters—by concentrating unconstrained power in a...
Elements of Deterrence
Global politics in the twenty-first century is complicated by dense economic interdependence, rapid technological innovation, and fierce security competition. How should governments formulate grand strategy in this complex environment? Many strategists look to deterrence as the answer, but how much can we expect of deterrence? Classical deterrence theory developed in response to the nuclear threats of the Cold War, but strategists since have applied it to a variety of threats in the land, sea, air, space, and cyber domains. If war is the continuation of politics by other means, then the diversity of technologies in modern war suggests a diversity of political effects. Some military forces or...
