How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

by EceTemelkuran (Author)

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  2019

  $12.00

  An urgent call to action from one of Europe's most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The New Ice Age of Politics is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe - before it's too late.

  That couldn't happen here

  Ece Temelkuran heard reasonable people in Britain say it the night of the Brexit vote.

  She heard reasonable people in America say it the night Trump's election was soundtracked by chants of `build that wall'.

  She heard reasonable people in Turkey say it, as Erdogan rigged elections, rebuilt the economy around cronyism, and labelled his opposition as terrorists.

  How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully formed into government, they creep. Award winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran, identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to South American, in order to define a global pattern, and arm the reader with the tools to root it out.

  No longer can the reasonable comfort themselves with it couldn't happen here. It is happening. And soon it may be too late.