The Return of Strongmen Around the World

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 30, 2017

What are the signs of an authoritarian leader and how should people respond? Basharat Peer, opinion editor at The New York Times, journalist and author of A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen  (Columbia Global Reports, 2017), highlights the undeniable similarities between Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and how those autocratic regimes can disrupt and seriously damage civil liberties.

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