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9 July 2022

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Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman

Princeton University Press, pp.352, 25

To study international politics since the turn of the century has been, in large part, to study the changing nature of autocracy – and the West’s relationship to it. We kicked things off by trying to realise the Trotskyite dream of ushering in global democracy through the barrel of a gun.

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