If you start from the idea that the nation is in deep crisis, then you say, why should we play by these rules, which actually are constraining us? Are a product of the elite, of the deep state. We need somebody who can cut through all that. So that trump, for example, comes in and says, i'm just ban or moslems from entering the united states. Urdan does that in turkey after the cu and 20 sixteenth whichila or tempted ku, which allows you to simply suspend the rule of law. In china, ofviosly, there isn't much rule of law anyway. But there had been tentative moves towards it.
In The Age of the Strongman, the journalist Gideon Rachman explores how populist and authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since Vladimir Putin took power in Russia at the beginning of the new millennium, self-styled strongmen have emerged across the globe, from Trump and Bolsonaro to Orbán, Xi and Modi. Rachman tells Tom Sutcliffe how these leaders have taken power and the challenge they pose to liberal democracy.
Judy Dempsey is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of the Strategic Europe blog. She explains how Viktor Orbán has tightened his grip on power in Hungary, while the EU has dragged its heels. And how Putin’s war in Ukraine has not only exacerbated pre-existing global divisions but divided Europe as well.
History is littered with powerful leaders, and Christopher de Bellaigue, tells of the rise of one of the most feared – Suleyman the Magnificent. In The Lion House: The Coming of a King the 16th century Ottoman Sultan dominates the lives of those from Baghdad to the walls of Vienna.
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