The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman

The Age of the Strongman by Gideon Rachman

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times

From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orb n, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world.

The first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to its key actors, from the award-winning journalist and author of Easternization.

This is the most urgent political story of our time: authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh, and Washington. These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent, or the interests of foreigners. At home, they claim to be standing up for ordinary people against globalist elites; abroad, they posture as the embodiments of their nations. And everywhere they go, they encourage a cult of personality. What's more, these leaders are not just operating in authoritarian political systems but have begun to emerge in the heartlands of liberal democracy.

Gideon Rachman has been in the same room with most of these strongmen and reported from their countries over a long journalistic career. While others have tried to understand their rise individually, Rachman pays full attention to the widespread phenomenon and uncovers the complex and often surprising interaction among these leaders. In the process, he identifies the common themes in our local nightmares, finding global coherence in the chaos and offering a bold new paradigm for navigating our world.

The Financial Times' chief international affairs commentator is Gideon Rachman. He spent fifteen years as a senior editor and correspondent for The Economist before joining the Financial Times in 2006. He has reported from all over the world, including Russia, China, India, and Afghanistan, and has worked as a foreign reporter in Washington, Brussels, and Bangkok.

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ISBN 13	9781635422801
ISBN 10	1635422809
Title	The Age of the Strongman
Author	Gideon Rachman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Other Press LLC
Year published	2022-04-19
Number of pages	288
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