Authoritarian Regimes Learn from Each Other – In Conversation with Mikal Hem
In our new podcast, Mikal Hem discusses what modern dictators and autocrats seem to have learned from their predecessors, reflects on what might drive voters toward leaders with autocratic tendencies, considers what democratic societies can learn from the survival strategies of dictators, and contemplates how the resilience of free media could be strengthened in autocracies.
The conversation was recorded on September 19, at the Budapest Forum for Building Sustainable Democracies.
Mikal Hem has worked as a journalist and political commentator for the Norwegian newspapers Dagbladet and Verdens…
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