Search Results - Authoritarianism

Adaptable autocrats regime power in Egypt and Syria / by Stacher, Joshua, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Debating authoritarianism -- The origins of executive authority -- Adaptation and elite co-optation -- Adaptation and nonelite co-optation -- The 2011 uprisings and the future of autocratic adaptation.…”
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Collapse of an empire lessons for modern Russia / by Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)

Table of Contents: “…The grandeur and the fall of empires -- Modern economic growth and the era of empires -- Crisis and the dismantling of overseas empires -- Problems of dissolving territorially integrated empires -- The yugoslav tragedy -- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability -- Challenges in the early stages of modern economic growth and authoritarianism -- The instability of authoritarian regimes -- Mechanics of the collapse of authoritarianism -- The oil curse -- The Spanish prologue -- Resource wealth and economic development -- Specifics of the oil market -- Regulating the oil market in the twentieth century -- Challenges related to price fluctuations of commodities: Mexico and Venezuela -- In search of a way out: a response to the dangers of unstable commodity pricing -- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s -- Growing problems and bad decisions -- Food supply problems -- Food shortages-a strategic challenge -- The USSR as the largest importer of food -- Oil in Western Siberia: the illusion of salvation -- A drop in oil prices: the final blow -- The collapse of the USSR: the unexpected becomes the rule -- The political economy of external shocks -- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political alternatives -- The ussr and the drop in oil prices: the essence of the choice -- A series of mistakes -- Mounting problems in the soviet economy -- The hard currency crisis -- Economic and political liberalization against the background of the hard currency and financial problems -- Development of the crisis of the socialist system -- Political credits -- The price of compromise -- The crisis of the empire and the nationality question -- Loss of control over the economic and political situation -- The currency crisis -- From crisis to catastrophe -- "Extraordinary efforts" instead of reforms -- On the brink of default -- On the path to state bankruptcy -- The grain problem -- Prices skyrocket -- Money and the fate of the empire -- The fall -- The political economy of the failed coup -- Political death throes -- Political disintegration: economic consequences -- A civilized divorce.…”
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Uzbekistan transition to authoritarianism on the Silk Road / by Melvin, Neil

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Culture, power, and authoritarianism in the Indonesian state cultural policy across the twentieth-century to the reform era / by Jones, Tod, 1977-

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Departures from post-colonial authoritarianism analysis of system change with a focus on Tanzania / by Grawert, Elke

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The rise and fall of Arab presidents for life by Owen, Roger, 1935-

Subjects: “…Authoritarianism Arab countries.…”
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Twenty years of independence in Zimbabwe from liberation to authoritarianism /

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Ultimate freedom-- no choice the culture of authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940 / by Hanovs, Deniss

Table of Contents: “…Staging Atdzimšanas Dziesma : technologies of authoritarianism cultural policy -- How does one stage the principle of authoritarianism? …”
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From resilience to revolution : how foreign interventions destabilize the Middle East / by Yom, Sean L.

Subjects: “…Authoritarianism Middle East History 20th century.…”
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Men of order authoritarian modernization under Ataturk and Reza Shah / by Atabaki, Touraj

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The Saddam tapes the inner workings of a tyrant's regime, 1978-2001 / by Woods, Kevin M.

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Absolutism in Renaissance Milan plenitude of power under the Visconti and the Sforza, 1329-1535 / by Black, Jane, 1945-

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Thinking through transition : liberal democracy, authoritarian pasts, and intellectual history in East Central Europe after 1989 /

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The Ottoman mobilization of manpower in the First World War between voluntarism and resistance / by Beşikçi, Mehmet

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Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States Divergent Paths toward a New Europe / by Boduszyński, Mieczysław P., 1974-

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Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States : Divergent Paths toward a New Europe / by Boduszyński, Mieczysław P., 1974-

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Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States : Divergent Paths toward a New Europe / by Boduszyński, Mieczysław P., 1974-

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Reimagining politics after the Terror the republican origins of French liberalism / by Jainchill, Andrew J. S.

Table of Contents: “…: debate on expansion, 1794-99 -- Liberal authoritarianism and the Constitution of the Year VIII -- Liberal republicanism and dissent against Bonaparte -- Epilogue : the fate of French liberal republicanism.…”
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Joschka Fischer and the making of the Berlin Republic an alternative history of postwar Germany / by Hockenos, Paul, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Adenauer's Germany -- Postwar -- Silent fifties -- The red decade -- Anti-authoritarian revolt -- Radical left -- From protest to parliament -- Between Harrisburg and Hiroshima -- Autumn of the Euromissiles -- Going realo -- One two many Germanys -- The Berlin Republic -- German questions -- The price of power -- Continential drift.…”
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Fascism in Spain, 1923-1977 by Payne, Stanley G.

Table of Contents: “…Nationalism in Spain : liberal, authoritarian, fascist -- pt. 2. José Antonio Primo de Rivera and Falange Española, 1933-1936 -- pt. 3. …”
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