Dictatorship Syndrome

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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The study of dictatorship in the West has acquired an almost exotic dimension. But authoritarian regimes remain a painful reality for billions of people worldwide who still live under them, their freedoms violated, and their rights abused. They are subject to arbitrary arrest, torture, corruption, ignorance, and injustice. What is the nature of dictatorship? How does it take hold? In what conditions and circumstances is it permitted to thrive? And how do dictators retain power, even when reviled and mocked by those they govern? In this deeply considered and at times provocative short work, Alaa Al Aswany tells us that, as with any disease, to understand the syndrome of dictatorship we must first consider the circumstances of its emergence, along with the symptoms and complications it causes in both the people and the dictator.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-02-15
Mått190 x 198 x 120 mm
Vikt250 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor210
FörlagHaus Publishing
ISBN9781913368043

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ALAA AL ASWANY is the author of bestselling novels The Yacoubian Building, Chicago, The Automobile Club of Egypt, the novella and short story collection Friendly Fire and the 2011 non-fiction work On the State of Egypt. His work has been translated into 37 languages and published in over 100 countries. Al Aswany was named by The Times as one of the best 50 authors to have been translated into English in the last 50 years.RUSSELL HARRIS is an established translator of literary works from French and Arabic.

Author's note // vii1. The syndrome // 12. Symptoms of the dictatorship syndrome // 153. The emergence of the good citizen // 274. The conspiracy theory // 375. The spread of the fascist mindset // 476. The dislocation of the intellectual // 657. Dictatorship and the predisposing factors for terrorism // 858. The course of the syndrome // 1059. Prevention of the dictatorship syndrome // 133Notes // 145Acknowledgements // 173Index // 175