Thanos Kalamidas - Politics

20 plus one authoritarians completely out of the closet Thanos Kalamidas We are living in an age of political illusions. The old binaries, democracy versus dictatorship, the free world versus authoritarianism, have blurred. The brutal regimes of the 20th century have not disappeared; they have evolved. Today’s authoritarian leaders cloak themselves in democratic rituals, giving speeches at international summits, signing treaties, and maintaining the formal trappings of elections and parliamen