This comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions which determine regime sur

In this lively and provocative book, Erica De Bruin looks at the threats that rulers face from their own armed forces. Can they make their regimes impervious to

Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those w

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with