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Opening Remarks at the Dahrendorf Symposium 2016
Author(s) -
Roth Kenneth
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12436
Subject(s) - authoritarianism , china , feeling , political science , phenomenon , product (mathematics) , political economy , sociology , development economics , law , politics , democracy , psychology , economics , social psychology , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
It is not just in the West that we are seeing this rejection of rights and liberalism. There is the emergence of strongmen, an odd term because it often is a product of weakness that people like Erdoğan in Turkey, Putin in Russia, al‐Sisi in Egypt, or even going a bit further afield Xi Jinping in China resort to these authoritarian methods.