Countering the Strongman

<p>Expert on authoritarianism Ruth Ben-Ghiat published in 2020 an acclaimed comparative study of the political strategies and impact of the most prominent authoritarian leaders from Mussolini to our day. In her analysis of regimes as diverse as those of Mussolini, Gaddafi, Putin, and Pinochet, she identified common threads and strategies to combat them. The author granted the following excerpts to El Faro for publication in May 2021.</p>

Ruth Ben-Ghiat