- Where Despots Rule: The American workplace is marked more by hierarchy and domination than democracy and freedom. https://jacobinmag.com/2017/06/private-government-interview-elizabeth-anderson 7 comments politics
- Multilateralism for a Despotic Age - Democracies need different rules of engagement with authoritarian regimes. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/03/12/multilateralism-despotic-age/ 20 comments geopolitics
- The Islamic State appears to be fraying from within. As dissent, defections and setbacks on the battlefield sap the group’s strength and erode its aura of invincibility among those living under its despotic rule. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-islamic-state-is-fraying-from-within/2015/03/08/0003a2e0-c276-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html 5 comments worldnews
- China’s Unstoppable Billion: The most important global trend is the emergence of a great people from millennia of despotic rule, says Gordon Chang. The Chinese people, in short, are the world’s unstoppable force. http://the-diplomat.com/2012/01/05/china%E2%80%99s-unstoppable-billion/?all=true 3 comments worldnews