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Author: Michael Brown Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781721072675 Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
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Book 3: "The Despot's Paradise" GLITTER IS SHOT DOWN! While following a lead on the Hellkin battle group that attacked Simmal, the Atlantis reaches the edge of the Naziortol star system. The Naziortol system is ruled by a species of extreme xenophobes who will attack anyone who trespasses into their territory. When Bowen discovers that the Atlantis' new stealth fighters have been sabotaged, he is forced to order Glitter to fly a jury rigged stealth fighter. However, when Glitter's makeshift stealth system fails while she is deep inside Naziortol territory, she is shot down. Now Bowen's ground crew has to race to fix the sabotaged stealth fighters. Meanwhile, Glitter is captured by the Naziortol. Will Glitter manage to escape the Naziortol? Will the Atlantis manage to mount a rescue?
Author: Michael Brown Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781721072675 Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
Book 3: "The Despot's Paradise" GLITTER IS SHOT DOWN! While following a lead on the Hellkin battle group that attacked Simmal, the Atlantis reaches the edge of the Naziortol star system. The Naziortol system is ruled by a species of extreme xenophobes who will attack anyone who trespasses into their territory. When Bowen discovers that the Atlantis' new stealth fighters have been sabotaged, he is forced to order Glitter to fly a jury rigged stealth fighter. However, when Glitter's makeshift stealth system fails while she is deep inside Naziortol territory, she is shot down. Now Bowen's ground crew has to race to fix the sabotaged stealth fighters. Meanwhile, Glitter is captured by the Naziortol. Will Glitter manage to escape the Naziortol? Will the Atlantis manage to mount a rescue?
Author: John Keane Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674246691 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 321
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An Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world. One day they’ll be like us. That was once the West’s complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. And one day, he warns, we may be more like them. Drawing on extensive travels, interviews, and a lifetime of thinking about democracy and its enemies, Keane shows how governments from Russia and China through Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe have mastered a formidable combination of political tools that threaten the established ideals and practices of power-sharing democracy. They mobilize the rhetoric of democracy and win public support for workable forms of government based on patronage, dark money, steady economic growth, sophisticated media controls, strangled judiciaries, dragnet surveillance, and selective violence against their opponents. Casting doubt on such fashionable terms as dictatorship, autocracy, fascism, and authoritarianism, Keane makes a case for retrieving and refurbishing the old term “despotism” to make sense of how these regimes function and endure. He shows how they cooperate regionally and globally and draw strength from each other’s resources while breeding global anxieties and threatening the values and institutions of democracy. Like Montesquieu in the eighteenth century, Keane stresses the willing complicity of comfortable citizens in all these trends. And, like Montesquieu, he worries that the practices of despotism are closer to home than we care to admit.
Author: Gilbert Alter-Gilbert Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1620877465 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 255
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The Desktop Digest of Dictators and Despots is a compendium and quick reference guide to history’s most notorious absolutist rulers and authoritarian regimes. In a handsome hardcover format, this handy encyclopedia of totalitarians is as informative as it is titillating, a lurid panorama of history’s most malignant autarchs with original full-color portraits and accompanying psychobiographical profiles. From pharaohs to ayatollahs, from Caesar to Hitler, here are fifty-three profiles of history’s most warped personalities and their shocking crimes. Roman Emperor Nero, who lit the roads to the Coliseum’s night games by lining them with human torches made of the burning bodies of crucified Christians Alfredo Stroessner, under whose administration Paraguay offered comfortable refuge to former Nazis while rifle-toting “sportsmen” flocked to the countryside on weekends to legally hunt Indians Idi Amin, the dictator of Uganda, where power outages at the capitol were a routine occurrence because the sluiceways at the nearby hydroelectric dam were clogged with the bodies of so many citizens executed in his torture cells that the pampered local disposal team—the crocodiles—couldn’t eat them fast enough The horrifying pageant of tyranny has trailed in its wake a vicious train of exploitation, intolerance and oppression—war, conquest, subjugation, slavery, imprisonment, torture and execution—which continues unabated to the present day. Dictators never disappoint when it comes to proving that absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the perfect handbook for educators, armchair historians, and pop-culture pundits.
Author: Brian Klaas Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190934999 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 318
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For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington, London and Brussels chase pyrrhic short-term economic and security victories. Friendly fire from Western democracies against democracy abroad is too high a price to pay for a myopic foreign policy that is ultimately making the world less prosperous, stable and democratic. The Despot's Accomplice draws on years of extensive interviews on the frontlines of the global struggle for democracy, from a poetry-reading, politician-kidnapping general in Madagascar to Islamist torture victims in Tunisia, Belarusian opposition activists tailed by the KGB, West African rebels, and tea-sipping members of the Thai junta. Cumulatively, their stories weave together a tale of a broken system at the root of democracy's global retreat.
Author: Bülent Diken Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 178660390X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 157
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Ours is a post-political society that cannot imagine radical change; a ‘one dimensional’ society in which politics is reduced to economic concerns. Paradoxically, however, everybody today is subjected to the imperative of regular radical change. Populations have grown accustomed to the idea that one constantly needs to adapt to radical transformations, modify one’s life strategy in tune with the demands of the market on the one hand and the politics of security on the other. Indeed, the idea that there are unquestionable authorities, the idea of ‘despotism’, no longer refers to exceptional circumstances in which politics is suspended but rather seems to have become normalized as part of daily life. This book aims to articulate the genealogy of the despotism-economy-voluntary servitude nexus focusing on their different constellations in the prism of social theory and political philosophy. As it traces the genealogy of this nexus its concern is the field of formation, intervention and intelligibility that arises when and as the three concepts encounter one another.
Author: Diana J. Schaub Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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A treatment of Montesquieu's Persian Letters, which argues that the novel is a philosophic critique of despotism in all its forms: domestic, political and religious. It shows that Montesquieu believed that the Enlightenment failed as a philosophy by not recognising man as an erotic being.
Author: Lucette Valensi Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501717219 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 129
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In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds: the period after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, when Venice's pursuit of its commercial and maritime interests brought two powerful protagonists—Venice and the Sublime Porte—face-to-face. Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans, in which Judith liberates her besieged town by killing the Turk Holofernes, serves as the organizing metaphor in Valensi's study of how Venice's perceptions of its rival changed. Valensi shows how Venice's initial admiration for the sultan and his orderly empire metamorphosed into revulsion at a monstrous tyrant.
Author: Javier A. Galván Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 078646691X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 219
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Throughout the 20th century, the emergence of authoritarian dictatorships in Latin America coincided with periods of social convulsion and economic uncertainty. This book covers 15 dictators representing every decade of the century and geographically from the Caribbean and North and Central and South America. Each chapter covers their personal information (childhood, education, marriage, family...), assumption of power, relationship with the United States, oppression of civilians, and collapse of their regimes. The book also investigates inherent contradictions in U.S. foreign policy: promoting democracy abroad while supporting brutal dictatorships in Latin America. Such analysis requires multiple perspectives and this work embraces an evaluation of the influence of military dictatorships on cultural elements such as art, literature, journalism, music and cinema, while drawing on data from documentary archives, court case files, investigative reports, international treaties, witness testimonies, and personal letters from survivors. The dramatic experiences of courageous individuals who challenged these 15 oppressors are also recounted.
Author: Michael Brown
Author: Michael Brown
Author: John Keane
Author: Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Author: Brian Klaas
Author: Bülent Diken
Author: Constantin-François Volney
Author: David Aitchison
Author: Diana J. Schaub
Author: Lucette Valensi
Author: Javier A. Galván