The specter of elected despotism
How Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan beat us at our own game.
By
Melik Kaylan
11/13/15, 5:30 AM CET
Updated 11/13/15, 12:08 PM CET
A specter is haunting Europe, and the world — the specter of elected despotism. In Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Iran, and even as far afield as Venezuela, a new order is challenging the Western model of liberal democracy.
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