Sergei Guriev | Spin dictators
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- Writer and economics professor Sergei Guriev, an expert on Russia, shares his thoughts on a new breed of dictators. Guriev was rector of the prestigious New Economic School in Moscow from 2004 to 2013 before he fled to Paris after politically motivated interrogations. He addresses pressing questions about the ongoing war in Ukraine - a war that has not only brought material devastation and human tragedy to Ukrainians but has also come at huge economic cost. Why did Putin start this war? Doesn’t the economy matter to him? What is the role of lies and fear in Putin’s strategy?
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning authoritarian rule for a more sophisticated, globally connected world. In place of overt, mass repression, rulers such as Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Viktor Orbán control their citizens by distorting information and simulating democratic procedures. Like spin doctors in democracies, they spin the news to engineer support. Uncovering this new brand of authoritarianism, Sergei Guriev and co-author Daniel Treisman explain the rise of such “spin dictators” in their latest book, describing how they emerge and operate, the new threats they pose, and how democracies should respond.
Where does Putin rank in this taxonomy? For Guriev, one thing is clear: Putin has miscalculated the war in Ukraine. His narrative has become increasingly hard to spin, and that is why he has changed his strategy: “Putin’s regime has completed its reversion from a 21st century spin dictatorship to a 20th century dictatorship based on fear.”
www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_...
00:00:00 - 00:04:12 Intro Joachim Voth
00:04:12 - 00:44:00 Keynote Sergei Guriev
00:44:00 - 01:11:53 Q&A
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@randomdude this talk is specifically about authoritarians that pretend to be democratic. China doesn't even pretend, hence their exclusion.
Nor does Russia.
Сергей Маратович красавчик капитальный
too many laws kill the rule of law
in France : In 2002, according to the Council of State in France , the applicable law in France comprised 52,207 articles of law and 161,995 regulatory articles.
Eight years later, in 2020, these figures reached 86,521 and 236,781 respectively, an increase of 65% for legal texts and nearly 46% for regulatory texts.
In short, the sectors of health, security (army + police), education have taken power to their advantage.
too many laws kill the rule of law
China is covered at 49:30
21:51 I can not believe Xi's not on the list!
And China, of course, doesn't have censorship, doesn't have any camps, nor does it have all the other nice things from the playbook?
How come China's not on the list and, I'd assume, not in the book?
Has that got to do with the fact UBS has business/investment interests in China?
Such unspeakable levels of hypocrisy.
How come Xi's not on the list? 11:55
I guess because the original paper is written in 2015 and published in 2020.
@@andrewzhao1976 Or is it because one is forbidden from criticizing China on CZcams?
Sorry, I think based on the book, Xi is more like a hi-tech armed hybrid dictator (more towards the old-fashioned fear dictator, unlike Deng, Jiang, and Hu).
And the Chinese Dictatorship model is actually quite interesting, it's a shame that it's not discussed more in the paper and in the book. The spin dictatorship sounds very much like politics in China in the last 20 to 30 years. Now after the 20th CCP meeting, Xi seems to have over-through every norm out of the window. I wonder what happens next.
@@randomdude7384 I don't think one is forbidden from criticizing China on CZcams since youtube is blocked in China.