Free Download Sergei Guriev, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 0691211418 | 2022 | 360 pages | PDF | 5 MB
How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy

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Christian Jakob, "Dictators as Gatekeepers: Outsourcing EU border controls to Africa"
English | ISBN: 1988832276 | 2019 | 270 pages | EPUB | 956 KB
The USA is divided around the wall President Trump wants to build along the Mexican border. Europe has long answered this question at its own southern border: put up that wall but don't make it look like one. Today the EU is trying to close many deals as it can with African states, making it harder and harder for refugees to find protection and more dangerous for labor migrants to reach places where they can earn an income. But this is not the only effect: the more Europe tries to control migration from Africa, the harder it becomes for many Africans to move freely through their own continent, even within their own countries. Increasingly, the billions Europe pays for migration control is declared as official development assistance (ODA), more widely known as 'development aid, supposedly for poverty relief and humanitarian assistance. The EU is spending billions buying African leaders as gatekeepers, including dictators and suspected war criminals. And the real beneficiaries are the military and technology corporations involved in the implementation.

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English | ASIN: B09RBGCKWL | 2022 | 9 hours and 23 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 258 MB
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades, a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt mass repression, rulers such as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Viktor Orbán control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. Like spin doctors in democracies, they spin the news to engineer support. Uncovering this new brand of authoritarianism, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman explain the rise of such "spin dictators", describing how they emerge and operate, the new threats they pose, and how democracies should respond.

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English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367607867 | 465 pages | pdf | 4.08 MB
In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.

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Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, "Sites of the Dictators"
English | ISBN: 036768411X | 2021 | 218 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational and comparative way.

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I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944 By David Carey Jr.
2013 | 364 Pages | ISBN: 1477302107 | PDF | 32 MB
Given Guatemala's record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances and an important tool for advancing their agendas. As both a mirror and an instrument of the state, the judicial system simultaneously illuminates the limits of state rule and the state's ability to co-opt Guatemalans by hearing their voices in court.Against the backdrop of two of Latin America's most oppressive regimes-the dictatorships of Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1898-1920) and General Jorge Ubico (1931-1944)-David Carey Jr. explores the ways in which indigenous people, women, and the poor used Guatemala's legal system to manipulate the boundaries between legality and criminality. Using court records that are surprisingly rich in Maya women's voices, he analyzes how bootleggers, cross-dressers, and other litigants crafted their narratives to defend their human rights. Revealing how nuances of power, gender, ethnicity, class, and morality were constructed and contested, this history of crime and criminality demonstrates how Maya men and women attempted to improve their socioeconomic positions and to press for their rights with strategies that ranged from the pursuit of illicit activities to the deployment of the legal system.David Carey Jr. is Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine and author of Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875-1970, Ojer taq tzijob'äl kichin ri Kaqchikela' Winaqi' (A History of the Kaqchikel People), and Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives.

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Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B088G16ZQF | 2020 | 5 hours and 12 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Narrator: Kenneth C. Davis, Cindy Kay, Terrence Kidd

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Crazy Stuff Dictators Do: Insane But True Stories You Won't Believe Actually Happened by Bill O'Neill
English | November 7, 2020 | ISBN: 1648450695 | 219 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 6.44 Mb
World history is unfortunately full of many men and a few women who ruled their countries ruthlessly and committed many crazy acts in the process.

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