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HOW DO WE END TYRANNY?<\/b><\/p>\n
Tyrants seem invincible, but they face constant threats from all sides. Whether it’s by members of their inner circle, military elites, alienated masses, assassins, revolutionaries, or simply old age – they always fall. And when they do, they cannot retire: they face exile, prison or death. The aftermath can be catastrophic.<\/p>\n
Meeting with improbable coup plotters, intelligence officers, rebel commanders and fugitive dissidents, Dr Marcel Dirsus draws on extraordinary interviews to unpick the vulnerabilities of the world’s strongmen.How Tyrants Fall<\/i> is an essential guide to decapitating tyranny, and a warning of what happens if we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end? Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap. Whether it’s their inner circle turning against them or resentment of elites in the military, the masses alienated by cronyism or revolutionaries plotting in exile, tyrants always have more enemies than friends. And when they fall tyrants don’t quietly retire – they face exile, prison or death. But understanding dictators isn’t enough. ‘How Tyrants Fall’ is the gripping, deeply researched blueprint for how to bring them down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[249],"product_tag":[1486,3445,5547],"class_list":["post-106354","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-politics","product_tag-political-leaders-leadership","product_tag-political-science-theory","product_tag-political-structures-totalitarianism-dictatorship","pa_book_author-dirsus-marcel","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-321-9-edition23","pa_imprint-john-murray","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8634","pa_publisher-john-murray","pa_readership-college-higher-education-code-f","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n