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The strongmen : European encounters with sovereign power / Hans Kribbe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kribbe, Hans, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences).
- Balance of power.
- Heads of state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Seven decades after the liberation of Europe, the strongmen of global politics are back, dominating not only the headlines but international relations, the global economy, and the world's security. The strongman has a style and strategy of leadership that is anathema to the liberal democratic norms and practices of Europe. He (it is always he) challenges principles of consensus and collaboration, willingly tears up trade agreements, invades territory, and seeks to provoke and disrupt the status quo in order to achieve advantage. Such behaviour confounds and frustrates his counterparts abroad and yet, as this book shows, it can be anticipated, even understood, offering hope for dealing with and neutralizing it. Hans Kribbe draws on a range of political ideas to provide insight into the strongman's seemingly irrational and idiosyncratic behaviour and to better understand how he wields power and to what end. With the world's largest economies, including Europe's key ally, as well as strategic neighbouring states controlled by strongmen - Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Europe must learn to adapt and respond if it is to beat them at their own game.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: the allure of strength
- The strongman
- Saviour: in the clutches of time
- Lord: in the shadow of the state
- Performer: the mise en scène of power
- Duellist: the fellowship of foes
- Intermezzo: metagames
- Encounters
- Putin: recognizing forbidden space
- Erdogan: drawing borders
- Xi: defying the celestial empire
- Trump: cracking the strongman code
- Epilogue: initiations into power
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780228004721
- 0228004721
- 9780228004714
- 0228004713
- OCLC:
- 1154014739
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