https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Carthage-s-Troubles https://booksandideas.net/Carthage-s-Troubles 2025-03-25T07:00:00Z text/html en Pierre Robert Baduel International Arab world Tunisia dictatorship Cairn.info <p>How should we characterize the regime of Tunisian President Kais Saied since his 2021 power grab? To get a sense of what is happening “inside the country,” an edited volume provides an informed and engaged interpretation of the situation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Russia-s-Power-Diagonal https://booksandideas.net/Russia-s-Power-Diagonal 2024-10-24T09:08:00Z text/html en Yauheni Kryzhanouski International Russia freedom French Terror fear dictatorship Poutine Cairn.info <p>‘Prevent disorder' is the motto of Russian power, justifying all forms of repression and establishing a partly decentralized system of domination through fear at the hands of local mobs.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Prolonged-Suffering-of-the-Syrian-People https://booksandideas.net/The-Prolonged-Suffering-of-the-Syrian-People 2024-10-15T07:30:00Z text/html en Leyla Dakhli International Syria rebellion war dictatorship Cairn.info <p>Arrests, torture, massacres: the Assad clan has been tormenting the Syrian people for the past 50 years. This major collective work provides conclusive evidence of the violence to which Europe turns a blind eye.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Living-in-a-dictatorship https://booksandideas.net/Living-in-a-dictatorship 2023-07-11T06:30:00Z text/html en Karine Clément History freedom Europe resistance dictatorship Cairn.info <p>A new book uses an ethnological approach to shed light on the spaces of freedom and solidarity created by citizens in rural Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship. But these spaces, in some cases, also accommodate the regime.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Speech-and-Sense-of-Justness-in-China https://booksandideas.net/Speech-and-Sense-of-Justness-in-China 2020-11-09T08:00:00Z text/html en Émilie Frenkiel International democracy China freedom of speech Text Interviews dictatorship <p>According to Isabelle Thireau, there is a political realm in authoritarian regimes, where citizens voice their expectations and evaluate the legitimacy of decisions, public policies and leaders, thus contributing to the assessment of what is acceptable and what is good government.</p>