Book Review: The Dictator’s Learning Curve

Book Review: The Dictator’s Learning Curve

Dobson’s (2012) book takes on a somewhat different task to provide us with insights from dictatorships. While the works of political scientists on this subject, such as Levitsky & Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die (2019), or John Keane’s The New...
What Djokovic Affair Reminded Us

What Djokovic Affair Reminded Us

In light of recent developments surrounding the famous tennis player Novak Djokovic, Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers has once again drawn the attention of both national and international media. For those unfamiliar with the history of Australia’s detention...
Book Review: The New Despotism, John Keane (2020)

Book Review: The New Despotism, John Keane (2020)

As someone who has been following John Keane for a while, it would be accurate to say that The New Despotism (2020) is the accumulation of his ideas and writings in the last four years or so. To briefly describe the book, it is a book that examines how countries like...
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