Explaining authoritarian containment -- Informal protestantism in China and local government toleration -- Why public security bureaus contain Protestant house churches -- Everyday forms of containment -- Containment and authoritarian regime resilience -- Containment across auth…
A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia--how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule--remains opaque and often m…
As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on anecdotes pulled from diverse political climates, this convention…
"Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. Building on the author's previous work, this book discusses whether social…
“Discussions of the Arab world, particularly the Gulf States, increasingly focus on sectarianism and autocratic rule. These features are often attributed to the dominance of monarchs, Islamists, oil, and 'ancient hatreds'. To understand their rise, however, one has to turn to a …
"This is the first major political biography of General Ioannis Metaxas, who assumed dictatorial power in Greece in 1936 and oversaw the resistance to the Italian invasion in the Second World War. As a political portrait of the man, the book puts much emphasis on the early caree…
This is not a full biography of Ioannis Metaxas, only a political biography, a political profile of the man, a prosopography. What is presented here is a political portrait drawn mainly, in not exclusively, from Greek sources. The early years of his life, background, conduct and…
