The Revenge of Power

How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century

The Revenge of Power
Moises Naim
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Hardback
h233 x 154mm - 320pg
22 Feb 2022 US
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9781250279200
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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 loses, 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?
If you want to really understand the current global threat to democracy, you should read The Revenge of Power. Moises Naim has written a masterpiece. --David Rubenstein, co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group, Chairman of The Kennedy Center and The Council on Foreign RelationsIn The Revenge of Power, Moises Naim, one of the most acute observers of world politics, comprehensively catalogs the threats to democracy on the part of unaccountable dictators, populists, and companies in recent years, drawing insightful parallels across disparate domains. An important and timely work. --Francis Fukuyama, Professor, Stanford University and author of IdentityAnother original book by an original thinker, offering a unique global perspective on populism and power. --Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-prize winning historian and staff writer, The AtlanticThe Revenge of Power reminds me of why I consider Moises Naim one of the world' s most exciting and original political thinkers. This absorbing book explores the often contradictory trends that are reshaping political power, and explains that our future depends on how they get resolved. Essential reading. -- Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of StateHow did the ' end of history' turn into the renaissance of autocracy? Moises Naim brings his incisive analysis and global perspective to the most disturbing question of the 21st century, showing how populism, polarization and ' post-truth' politics have powered the rise of leaders from Berlusconi to Bolsonaro, Orban to Erdogan, Duterte to Donald Trump. Anyone who cares about the future of truth and democracy should read this book. --Alan Murray, CEO, FORTUNE An unusually smart, insightful, and elegantly written book about why authoritarians and autocrats have risen to power around the globe--and how we can defend democracy in our own backyards. No one understands power better than Moises Naim, and I was hooked from the third sentence. " --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and host of the TED podcast WorkLifePraise for THE END OF POWER: The End of Power makes a truly important contribution, persuasively portraying a compelling dynamic of change cutting across multiple game-boards of the global power matrix. --Washington PostThis fascinating book. . . should provoke a debate about how to govern the world when more and more people are in charge. --Foreign Affairs
MOISES NAIM is a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an internationally syndicated columnist. He served as editor in chief of Foreign Policy, as Venezuela' s trade minister, and as executive director of the World Bank.
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ISBN-13: 9781250279200
Published: 22 Feb 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 233mm
Width: 154mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 320

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