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The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
By Moisés Naím
St Martins Press
£23.99/$29.99
A leading international affairs journalist takes on one of the big political puzzles of our era — why is authoritarianism making a comeback? Naím skilfully combines reportage with social-science research to identify the new tactics used by authoritarians, highlighting the three “P”s: populism, polarisation and “post-truth”.