Blake W. Mobley, Carl A. Wege

The Fragile Dictator (eBook, ePUB)

Counterintelligence Pathologies in Authoritarian States

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Authoritarian states are digitizing mass surveillance to extend the reach and depth of autocracy in the service of their shared political goals of precluding organized dissent or the possibility of genuine republican governance. The Fragile Dictator: Counterintelligence Pathologies in Authoritarian States will explore how authoritarian pathologies impact the use of these technologies in terms of the authoritarian secret police, and internal and foreign security services and how larger autocratic pathologies are reflected in the behaviors of security organizations seeking their own survival under the autocratic state. The resilience of authoritarianism suggests that twenty-first century globalization is not a particular argument for the demise of dictatorship and Western powers must think about new approaches to defeat authoritarian internal and foreign security services as intensified by authoritarian sponsored clandestine networks. While authoritarianism has been a subject of scholarship before, the emerging digital authoritarianisms are increasingly powerful adversaries to the world's remaining liberal democracies and suggest a need for a different strategic approach when engaging digitized autocracies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666938135
• Artikelnr.: 68097641

Autorenporträt

Blake W. Mobley served at the Central Intelligence Agency as a counterintelligence officer and is the author of Terrorism and Counterintelligence: How Terrorist Groups Elude Detection (Columbia University Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Authoritarian Worldview
Chapter 2: New Wine in Old Bottles: Authoritarian Norms and Resistance
Under the Secret Police
Chapter 3: Digital Authoritarianism and its Pathologies
Chapter 4: The Pathologies of Authoritarian Reach
Chapter 5: The Fragile Dictator: Counterintelligence Vulnerabilities of the
Authoritarian Model