The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century pdf

Moisés Naím ha sido llamado “uno de los principales pensadores del mundo” (Revista Prospect) y ha sido clasificado entre los 100 principales líderes de pensamiento global por el Instituto Gottlieb Duttweiler de Suiza. Es miembro distinguido de Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, columnista sindicado internacionalmente y autor de 15 libros de gran éxito de ventas, incluidos "The End of Power" e "Illicit". En 2013, "The End of Power" fue seleccionado por el Washington Post y el Financial Times como uno de los mejores libros del año Naím publicó recientemente su primera novela “Dos espías en Caracas”.
En 2011 recibió el prestigioso premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo y en 2018 ganó un premio Emmy por su programa de televisión “Efecto Naim”. También fue editor en jefe de la revista Foreign Policy durante catorce años. Bajo su liderazgo, la revista ganó tres veces el Premio Nacional de Revistas a la Excelencia General y se convirtió en una de las publicaciones más influyentes del mundo en asuntos internacionales.
Naím se ha desempeñado como ministro de Comercio e Industria de Venezuela, director del Banco Central de Venezuela y director ejecutivo del Banco Mundial. Tiene un MSc. y doctorado Graduado del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts y ha sido Profesor y Decano del IESA, la principal escuela de negocios de Venezuela.

The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century pdf por Moses Naím

“An authoritative and intelligent portrait of the global spread of authoritarianism and its dangers...what sets [this] work apart from books like Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny and Michiko Kakutani’s The Death of Truth is its unusually comprehensive armada of facts about the international drift over the past two decades toward authoritarian leaders, whether old-style dictators like Kim Jong Un or nominally elected presidents like Vladimir Putin.” ―Kirkus
An urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy that illuminates one of the most important battles of our time: the future of freedom and how to contain and defeat the autocrats mushrooming around the world.
In his bestselling book The End of Power, Moisés Naím examined power-diluting forces. In The Revenge of Power, Naím turns to the trends, conditions, technologies and behaviors that are contributing to the concentration of power, and to the clash between those forces that weaken power and those that strengthen it. He concentrates on the three “P”s―populism, polarization, and post-truths. All of which are as old as time, but are combined by today’s autocrats to undermine democratic life in new and frightening ways. Power has not changed. But the way people go about gaining it and using it has been transformed.
The Revenge of Power is packed with alluring characters, riveting stories about power grabs and loses, and vivid examples of the tricks and tactics used by autocrats to counter the forces that are weakening their power. It connects the dots between global events and political tactics that, when taken together, show a profound and often stealthy transformation in power and politics worldwide. Using the best available data and insights taken from recent research in the social sciences, Naím reveals how, on close examination, the same set of strategies to consolidate power pop up again and again in places with vastly different political, economic, and social circumstances, and offers insights about what can be done to ensure that freedom and democracy prevail.
The outcomes of these battles for power will determine if our future will be more autocratic or more democratic. Naím addresses the questions at the heart of the matter: Why is power concentrating in some places while in others it is fragmenting and degrading? And the big question: What is the future of freedom?