The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
by Moisés Naím
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"Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It 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 New York Times bestselling book The End of Power, Moisés Naím examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge of Power, Naím turns to the trends, conditions, and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of show more power, and to the clash between those the 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 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, Naím 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. These outcomes will, in turn, depend on the capacity of our democracies to survive the attacks and dirty tricks of autocratic leaders bent on weakening the checks and balances that limit their power. Naím addresses the questions at the heart of the matter: What are, in practice, those attacks and tricks? 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?"-- show lessTags
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This is somewhat simplistic book meant for a reader who hasn't been following world affairs during the last decade or so. I finished it, but it was largely a rehash of information and opinion I already knew. The author is annoyingly centrist and views things as a neoliberal. That isn't to say that what he is saying is in anyway wrong. It's not. There is a lot of stuff in here. It works just fine as a refresher, but it doesn't contain many new insights. It's observation is ultimately "Populism is out there, it's bad, but hopefully everyone will soon come back to trust the elites once again."
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Moisés Naím (born July 5, 1952) is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an internationally syndicated columnist whose writings are published by leading papers worldwide, and the author of more than 10 books. Naím was the editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine for 14 years (1996-2010). Since 2011, he has show more directed and hosted Efecto Naim, a weekly television program on international affairs. He is the former Minister of Trade and Industry for Venezuela and Director of its Central Bank and Executive Director of the World Bank. His non-fiction book, The End of Power, was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy
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- 320.01 — Social sciences Political science Political science (Politics and government) Political Science Philosophy and Theory
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- JC330 .N335 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state
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