Authoritarian breakdown -- how dictators fall | Dr. Natasha Ezrow | TEDxUniversityofEssex

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Two thirds of the world lives under dictatorship, yet we know very little about dictatorship. How are dictatorships different and how significant are the differences?

Dr Natasha Ezrow is a Senior Lecturer in Government at the University of Essex. She has recently completed a new book Failed States and Institutional Decay, and she published two books in 2011 on dictatorships. Dictators and Dictatorships is an introductory textbook and The Politics of Dictatorship is a research monograph on the duration of authoritarian regime types.

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[arman]

Anyone else who's living under a dictatorship watching this?

[syedamjadali]

Listening to this today, Monday 22 July 2024. I am from Bangladesh 🇧🇩. Every sentence this lady is uttering is sending shivers down my spine, and I feel absolute despair.

[zachrome]

Deserves a lot more views. Excellent talk.

[John-pgyu]

Based on recent events reported from India, it seems it’s time to add India to the list. India (turning into Hindustan, like Pakistan) is becoming a fascist dictatorship in a disguise of a democracy. Human rights means nothing there and freedom an oblivion. If the ruling government wins again in the so claimed “unrigged” elections, coming in 2024, India will become the largest “democratic” dictatorship, with 1.4 billion people. That’s the irony no one understands. Fascists there are that good in deception. I encourage everyone to keep a close eye on India. It’s a good textbook on how the institutions that were placed to protect freedom led to the destruction of the same. It’s a good lesson on what to do and what not to do to keep a democracy alive. Most importantly, it tells a story of how silence of people lead to the death of a democracy.

[ACityMaker]

This is more an explanations or types of dictatorships rather and how they fall. That part was very vage to understand how can this be achieved by people who are living in a dictatorship right now.

[MrKepongbaru]

I hope to hear more in depth and more update to this. This is great content!

[mutoto]

Everything here matches with my mother land Uganda .

[TaTa-xdyt]

I'm from Iran. I hope our dictator (the Khalifa is ruling Iran for almost 40 years) falls in my lifetime. This TED talk is old, but it gave me some hope.
I called the leader of Islamic republic a "Khalifa" because that's what he is.
Even YouTube is blocked here. I have learned many things and skills from this site and thank to it I have a good paying job. The government wanted me to stay poor and struggle.
I actually started undoing my brainwashing from listening to these talks, so thank you!

[aZM]

You forgot some other types:
1) Theocracy like Iran.
2) Religious Nationalist regimes like Israel and Modi's India.
3) Corporate dictatorships supported by "colonial liberal democracies" like Augusto Pinochet of Chile.
4) Sectarian dictatorship like Lebanon.

[verdewolf]

Damn this sounds like my father. He has tried to control my life this whole time and I was clueless, when I thought he was giving me support, his end goal was to make sure I didn’t make it out without his help or approval

[nolaserv]

This lady hit it right on the nose. I loved her speech. Right to the point and no holding back. She is sooo... correct. FREEDOM WILL ALWAYS WIN no matter what! Communism ALWAYS fails. It can never surviive. Democracy rules no matter what country!

[jhollislennie]

bring it all down to personal relationships it is the same pattern works exactly the same, apply it to the narcissist same pattern, divide and conquer,

[albertmora]

Great job, Professor Lindstaedt. Thanks for educating us. Al

[Sourabh-]

Who is watching from Bangladesh Living under Shaikh Hasina's Dictatorship ?

[KeyshaEleazer]

Love is the cure. Dictators are fearful of not having a grip on people. Freedom in others is his enemy. "Be free by/under me".

[benjaminsloniker]

Watching this in December, 2016 in the United States. Very interesting.

[splendor]

It causes me concern that there is some points in this video that matches Bolsonaro's current government.

[nuraalamhridoy]

From Bangladesh at this very tumultuous situation.
August 4, 2024

[universalhologram]

Here we are in 2020 watching America go down the route of Authoritarianism. 😔

[dboproductions]

This was leanly informative. Thank you, Dr. Ezrow. Good presentation! 👏