Spin dictators: the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century.

Since the twentieth-century brutal regimes of Stalin, Hitler and Mao, the nature of dictatorships has changed and adapted to the new realities of the globalized world. As the world faces unprecedented challenges, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman provide a timely and well-researched analysis of how this new wave of "spin dictators" has managed to hold on to power and control citizens, in most cases through an imitation of democracy. Thus, instead of engaging in direct confrontation like fear dictators might have done, spin dictators prefer a more subtle strategy: break and corrupt the West from the inside. [Extracted from the article]

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