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Dialog Liber#113 Generalul(r) Bălăceanu și Comandorul(r) Mateiu: Avem Nevoie De Arma NuclearăInvitații mei la această ediție specială depsre războiul din Iran sunt generalul (r) Virgil Bălăceanu și comandorul (r) Sandu-Valentin Mateiu, doi militari care au văzut războiul de aproape. Unul a comandat forțe multinaționale NATO, celălalt a condus operațiuni în serviciile secrete ale armatei. Astăzi dezbatem la masa Dialog Liber trei întrebări critice: Suntem aproape de al Treilea Război Mondial? Va ataca Iranul baza de la Deveselu? Ar trebui România să dețină arme nucleare?➤ Cărți menționate în episod:1. Cum se prăbușesc tiranii de M...
2026-03-051h 34
The Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#13 Seva Gunitsky: Putin Got His Multipolar World. Now He'll Regret ItPutin spent two decades demanding a multipolar world. Now he's getting one — and it might destroy Russia.In this episode of The Next Best, I speak with Seva Gunitsky, professor at the University of Toronto and author of Aftershocks, about the irony at the heart of today's geopolitical shift: the global order Putin wanted may be far worse for Russia than the one he helped dismantle.We discuss why the invasion of Ukraine may be the biggest strategic blunder of the century, how personalist dictatorships distort decision-making, and why a world dominated by leaders like Putin, Trump, and Xi Ji...
2026-02-2741 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#12 Elizabeth N. Saunders: How Trump Broke 70 Years of American Foreign PolicyIs Congress irrelevant in U.S. foreign policy? Is bipartisanship a myth? And what happens when the biggest threat to a NATO ally might be the United States itself?This week on The Next Best, I'm joined by Elizabeth Saunders, professor at Columbia University and author of The Insider's Game: How Elites Make War and Peace. We unpack how American foreign policy really works — not in theory, but in practice.From the slow erosion of congressional war powers after World War II to the sweeping authorities passed after the September 11 attacks. From Harry S. Truman an...
2026-02-2137 min
The Civic ForumTrump's Authoritarianism: The View from Europe | Marcel Dirsus, The Next BestIn this episode of The Civic Forum, Rory speaks with authoritarianism scholar Dr. Marcel Dirsus, author of How Tyrants Fall, about whether the US is entering a period of authoritarianism and what stands out as unique about Trump. They discuss democratic backsliding, how governments tilt the electoral playing field, and why threats to the judiciary and control of security forces are key warning signs. They examine ICE as a potentially paramilitary, politically loyal force that could be used for intimidation, vote suppression, or protest crackdowns, and contrast these risks with the U.S. military’s tradition of nonpartisanship. The co...
2026-02-1754 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#11 Patrick McGee: How China Captured AppleApple doesn’t just manufacture in China. It helped build the system that now holds it hostage.In this episode of The Next Best, I speak with Financial Times journalist Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China, about one of the most important – and least understood – geopolitical entanglements of our time.• How did Apple become dependent on the Chinese Communist Party?• Why can’t it simply move production elsewhere?• And what does this tell us about authoritarian leverage in a globalized world?We explor...
2026-02-1144 min
Parseh Podcast (پادکست پرسه)53- Dictator's Reason III (منطق دیکتاتور ۳)اپیزود ۵۳ بخش سوم (آخر) از پروندهی «منطق دیکتاتور»با عضویت در بخش membership کانال یوتیوب، و همینطور از لینک پشتیبانی مالی از پرسه حمایت کنید.یوتیوب پرسه منابع این پرونده:The Dictator's Handbook - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2012The Dictator's Learning Curve - William J. Dobson 2013How Tyrants Fall - Marcel Dirsus 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2026-02-0845 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#10 Gavin Wilde: Why We Are Wrong About Hybrid WarfareHow powerful is propaganda—really? In this episode of The Next Best, Marcel Dirsus speaks with Gavin Wilde, a former White House official and U.S. intelligence analyst, about why we consistently overestimate the impact of fake news, disinformation, and "information warfare." From World War I and Edward Bernays to Russian hybrid warfare, social media bots, and AI-generated deepfakes, Wilde argues that propaganda is far less decisive than we like to believe.We discuss:• Why democracies struggle with persuasion and media literacy• How Russia exploits existing social...
2026-02-0538 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#9 Max Bergmann: How Europe Can Defend Itself Without AmericaCan Europe defend itself without the United States? The uncomfortable reality is that Europe’s security architecture is completely dependent on Washington—and that foundation is cracking.In this episode of The Next Best, Marcel Dirsus speaks with Max Bergmann (Director at CSIS and former US diplomat) about the depth of this military dependence. They break down exactly what would have to change if Washington steps back, covering the "fatal flaws" in European defense—from procurement failures and intelligence sharing to the growing risk of a prolonged war with Russia.Topics Discussed:• The Command Problem: Why Europe lacks a unified...
2026-01-2843 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#8 Tim Weiner: Fear, Torture & The CIA's Strategic Failure After 9/11Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Tim Weiner joins Marcel Dirsus to discuss his book, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century. This episode is a deep dive into the CIA, the failures of the War on Terror, and the future of modern warfare. Weiner traces the agency’s evolution from the Cold War through 9/11, revealing how fear drove the CIA into torture, secret prisons, and paramilitary operations that reshaped America’s moral standing. He argues that while the agency has had tactical successes—like dismantling nuclear smuggling networks and stealing...
2026-01-2232 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#7 Oliver Moody: Russia vs NATO - The Baltic is the FrontlineThe Baltic region is Europe's most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint. From the Suwałki Gap to the stationing of German combat troops in Lithuania, we explore the geopolitical stakes of a potential conflict between Russia and NATO.Political scientist Marcel Dirsus speaks with Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent for The Times, to analyze the strategic vulnerability of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.00:00 Russia’s Hybrid War Against Europe00:31 Why the Baltic Region Is Europe’s Geopolitical Flashpoint01:00 Baltic: NATO, Russia, and Europe’s Future01:24 Baltic States History: From Empire to Independence03:07...
2026-01-1443 min
InterviewHoffnung für den Iran? 'Wie Diktaturen stürzen'Dirsus, Marcel www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Interview
2026-01-1306 min
Parseh Podcast (پادکست پرسه)52- Dictator's Reason II (منطق دیکتاتور ۲)اپیزود ۵۲ بخش دوم از پروندهی «منطق دیکتاتور»اسپانسر این اپیزود «بیتا»وبسایت بیتا با کد PARSEH (با حروف بزرگ) سه تراکنش اول شما در بیتا بدون کارمزد خواهد بود.اینستاگرام بیتابا عضویت در بخش membership کانال یوتیوب، و همینطور از لینک پشتیبانی مالی از پرسه حمایت کنید.یوتیوب پرسه منابع این پرونده:The Dictator's Handbook - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2012The Dictator's Learning Curve - William J. Dobson 2013How Tyrants Fall - Marcel Dirsus 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2026-01-0757 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#6 Edward Fishman: How the US Weaponized the Global EconomyHow the U.S. turned banks, the dollar, and tech supply chains into a weapon that isolates entire countries without firing a shot.Edward Fishman is the author of "Chokepoints" and a former member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff. We discuss how the US transformed the global financial system into a weapon, the history of economic statecraft from naval blockades to smart sanctions, and the invisible infrastructure of the US dollar. We also cover the origins of the Iran sanctions campaign, how secondary sanctions force allies to comply, and whether the overuse of these...
2026-01-0746 min
Parseh Podcast (پادکست پرسه)51- Dictator's Reason I (منطق دیکتاتور ۱)اپیزود ۵۱ بخش اول از پروندهی «منطق دیکتاتور»اسپانسر این اپیزود «بیتا»وبسایت بیتابا کد PARSEH (با حروف بزرگ) سه تراکنش اول شما در بیتا بدون کارمزد خواهد بود.اینستاگرام بیتابا عضویت در بخش membership کانال یوتیوب، و همینطور از لینک پشتیبانی مالی از پرسه حمایت کنید.یوتیوب پرسه منابع این پرونده:The Dictator's Handbook - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2012The Dictator's Learning Curve - William J. Dobson 2013How Tyrants Fall - Marcel Dirsus 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-12-311h 00The Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#5 Michael Kimmage: This Happens if Russia WinsWe're now multiple years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and an end to the fighting isn't in sight. There are now negotiations, but where could these negotiations lead? What happens if Russia wins? And why did Putin decide to invade in the first place? To answer these questions, I speak to Michael Kimmage. Michael is the director of the Kennan Institute in Washington, DC and a professor of history at the Catholic University of America. His latest book is called Collisions: The War in Ukraine and the Origins of the New Global Instability.
2025-12-2346 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#4 Kori Schake: Will the Military Stop Trump? A Warning from HistoryMy guest this week is Kori Schake. Kori has an incredibly impressive CV. She is currently the Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, but she has also worked at the US Department of State, the Pentagon and the White House. She advised John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign and she has taught at Stanford and West Point.Her latest book is called The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States. We talk about Trump, of course, but also George Washington, World War II...
2025-12-1738 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#3 John Lechner: How Putin's Mercenaries OperateEarlier this year, I read a book called Death is Our Business and this week I spoke to the author John Lechner. John is an interesting man. He used to work in investment banking and then he decided to become a journalist. So he moved to Africa and started reporting on Russian mercenaries. John got kidnapped at some point, but along the way he learned quite a few languages. He speaks fluent Russian, advanced Turkish, and conversational Chechen, as well as Sango, which is the most important language in the Central African Republic.
2025-12-1043 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#2 Charles Hecker: How Western Business FailedHey, it's Marcel Dirsus and this is The Next Best. I spoke to Charles Hecker this week. Charles has spent 40 years traveling and working in the Soviet Union and Russia. He speaks fluent Russian and he just wrote a book called Zero Sum. At first glance, the book is about international business in Russia. And it is, but it is also a lens to look at political and economic developments more generally. We spoke about the chaos of the early 1990s. Western governments pushing their companies to invest in Russia and the impact that closer...
2025-12-0343 minThe Next Best with Marcel Dirsus#1 Steve Coll: Why America Invaded IraqMy guest this week is Steve Coll. Steve is a senior editor at The Economist and he has written nine books. He has won the Pulitzer Prize not once, but twice. His most recent book is about Saddam Hussein, the CIA and America's invasion of Iraq. It is called The Achilles Trap. 1In this episode, we talk about Saddam Hussein's childhood, chemical weapons use against Iran, and a series of miscalculations that ultimately led to war. I had lot of fun talking to Steve, and the discussion is relevant beyond America and Iraq, because misunderstanding the opposite...
2025-11-2649 min2025-11-2100 min
Foreign Times(ex Premium) ForeignTimes088 mit Marcel Dirsus über Trumps Griff nach der Macht EpisodeMarcel Dirsus und Marco Herack besprechen Trumps Griff nach der Macht, den Widerstand und welche Mittel besonders bedrohlich sind. Aber auch die Möglichkeiten Deutschlands...
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2025-11-151h 03
AI愛讀書E16_《暴君如何倒台》拆解：從黃金槍悖論到政變預防，揭示獨裁權力的脆弱與理性算計E16 - “How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive” by Marcel Dirsus基爾大學安全政策研究所無任所研究員馬塞爾・迪爾蘇斯博士，在政權不穩定與政治暴力研究領域享有權威地位。他不僅曾為北約和經濟合作暨發展組織等機構提供諮詢，其分析更獲《金融時報》、《外交事務》及《紐約時報》等頂尖媒體報導。在《暴君如何倒台》一書中，迪爾蘇斯博士透過「金槍悖論」的核心概念，深入剖析為何看似掌握絕對權力的暴君，內心卻始終活在恐懼之中。然而，他們為求生存所採取的肅清、收買與削弱軍隊等策略，最終卻諷刺地鑄造了自身的致命弱點。本書引領讀者探討暴君究竟如何倒台、垮台後會發生什麼，以及外部力量能否且是否應該介入等關鍵問題，為所有關心民主存亡與威權主義本質的讀者，提供了一份剖析其內在矛盾的精闢指南。
2025-11-0226 min
The AI-Powered ReaderE16 - “How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive” by Marcel DirsusIn How Tyrants Fall And How Nations Survive, Dr. Marcel Dirsus explores the profound paradox that the world’s most powerful tyrants are condemned to live in constant fear. Drawing on his expertise in regime instability and political violence—credentials honed advising organizations like NATO—Dirsus dissects the core vulnerabilities of authoritarian rule. To explain this vulnerability, Dirsus introduces two core concepts: the "Golden Gun paradox," which analyzes why a despot's power is often useless when needed most, and the "Dictator's Treadmill," the perilous trade-off that makes relinquishing power more hazardous than clinging to it. This relentless struggle for surviv...
2025-11-0227 min
Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl#90 Marcel Dirsus: Why Dictators Always Seem Unstoppable - Until They’re Not➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/This is a conversation with Marcel Dirsus, a political scientist whose research focuses on the fascinating topic of “survivability of dictatorships” - figuring out how and why some autocratic regimes fall while others survive and remain stable for generations. It’s a fascinating topic, and the discussion is roughly split into three parts. First, we ta...
2025-11-0140 min
ZvedavosťPosledné dejstvo Muammara Kaddáfího – Koniec muža, ktorý sa považoval za bohaMuammar Kaddáfí si postavil zlaté sochy, stan v Paríži a pod svojimi palácmi vybudoval bludiská únikových tunelov. No keď prišiel jeho koniec, ukrýval sa v zapáchajúcom kanáli a prosil o milosť. Príbeh jeho pádu odhaľuje, že aj najmocnejší tyrani žijú v neustálom strachu – a moc, ktorú si budujú celý život, sa im napokon stane pascou. Politológ Marcel Dirsus v knihe Ako končia tyrani skúma, prečo a ako diktátori v konečnom dôsledku strácajú moc.
2025-10-2518 min
HUNGRY MINDS - eine Generation, die fordert#37 Wie stürzen Diktatoren, Marcel Dirsus?Das Ende autokratischer Herrschaftssysteme
Autoritäre Regime sind weltweit auf dem Vormarsch und bedrohen demokratische Werte. Unser heutiger Gesprächspartner, Dr. Marcel Dirsus, ist sich allerdings sicher: Irgendwann stürzt jeder Diktator. Wir sprechen darüber, welche Umstände es dazu braucht.
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2025-10-0548 min
Sydney Writers' FestivalTurmoil and TyrannyWars, coups and economic and climate crises: each new headline can make it feel like the world is suddenly falling apart. But behind many dramatic world events are long-term historical patterns and the rise (and sometimes the fall) of tyrannical and authoritarian rulers. From the Arab Spring to the fall of dictators like Syria’s Assad, find out more about telling these stories from the inside with award-winning foreign correspondent Peter Greste (The Correspondent) and political scientist and author Marcel Dirsus (How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive). In conversation with Avani Dias. This episode wa...
2025-09-1652 min
The Pioneer Briefing YoutubeIm Riesenrad: Mit Trump & PutinGabor Steingart präsentiert die Pioneer Briefing Weekend Edition.
"The Pioneer Briefing" kostenlos als Newsletter abonnieren: http://bit.ly/40vucZ8 "The Pioneer Briefing" kostenlos als Newsletter abonnieren: https://bit.ly/4hfVposDonald Trump als Friedensstifter? Kaum hat er Wladimir Putin schmeichelnd die Hand gereicht und sich mit Wolodymyr Selensky im Weißen Haus versöhnt, schlägt er auf Truth Social wieder um – und fordert die Ukraine indirekt zum Angriffskrieg auf. Selensky zieht mit einer kämpferischen Videoansprache nach. Die Welt wirkt wie ein Riesenrad: mal oben, mal unten – nur aussteige...
2025-08-2316 min
The Pioneer Briefing - Nachrichten aus Politik und WirtschaftIm Riesenrad: Mit Trump & PutinGabor Steingart präsentiert die Pioneer Briefing Weekend Edition.
"The Pioneer Briefing" kostenlos als Newsletter abonnieren: http://bit.ly/4m8Dxyg "The Pioneer Briefing" kostenlos als Newsletter abonnieren: https://bit.ly/4hfVposDonald Trump als Friedensstifter? Kaum hat er Wladimir Putin schmeichelnd die Hand gereicht und sich mit Wolodymyr Selensky im Weißen Haus versöhnt, schlägt er auf Truth Social wieder um – und fordert die Ukraine indirekt zum Angriffskrieg auf. Selensky zieht mit einer kämpferischen Videoansprache nach. Die Welt wirkt wie ein Riesenrad: mal oben, mal unten – nur ausst...
2025-08-2316 min
DisorderEp 133. Could Epstein Bring Down Trump?It’s that time of the month (ha), as we take listener questions!
Jason and Jane discuss why the Epstein scandal WILL genuinely hurt Trump with his conspiracy loving base, the complexities of the UK’s independent nuclear deterrent, the multilateralism of any new Iran nuclear deal, the implications of blowback from Trump's conspiratorial scaremongering, and if the Russians have the ability to escalate the ongoing conflict in Ukraine or if they are ‘maxed out’.
Plus we handle eloquent verbiage from very verbose mega-orderers’ questions: we revisit why neopopulists like Trump a...
2025-07-2959 min
NZZ GeopolitikRegime-Change: warum Diktatoren kaum gestürzt werden
Nach dem kurzen Krieg zwischen Israel und Iran scheinen die Mullahs in Teheran so fest im Sattel zu sitzen wie vor dem Konflikt.
Gast: Marcel Dirsus, Politikwissenschafter
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2025-07-0934 min
SWR Kultur lesenswert - LiteraturMarcel Dirsus – Wie Diktatoren stürzen und wie Demokraten siegen
Aktuellen Studien zufolge sank die Zahl der Demokratien 2024 auf einen historischen Tiefstand. Autokraten scheinen auf dem Vormarsch zu sein und bekannte Diktatoren wie Mohammad Bin-Salman in Saudi-Arabien oder Wladimir Putin sitzen scheinbar fest im Sattel.
Der Politikwissenschaftler Marcel Dirsus beschäftigt sich seit über zehn Jahren mit Diktaturen. In seinem neuen Buch trägt er wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zusammen und bringt eigene Erfahrungen ein, an denen es dem ehemaligen Berater internationaler Organisationen wie der NATO nicht mangelt.
Schwachstellen diktatorischer Regime
Zunächst erläutert er, dass Tyrannen auf vielerlei Weise von der Macht verdrängt werden können: Zum Beispiel du...
2025-07-0804 min
ConversationsOur post-American future — what will the new world order look like?Defence analyst Hugh White says Australian leaders are in denial about how dramatically the world has changed, and need to get a grip on the deep, troubling forces propelling us into a new order of world power.The balance of global power has changed dramatically over the last 25 years.Even in the last five years, so much has happened - the pandemic, AUKUS, the war in Ukraine, a change of government here in Australia, Donald Trump's return to the White House, and all the tumult that has followed over the past six months....
2025-06-1152 min
Experience ANUMeet the Author-Marcel DirsusMarcel Dirsus was in conversation with Allan Behm on his book How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive.
2025-06-031h 01
SBS German - SBS DeutschHow do tyrants fall? - Wie fallen Tyrannen?Democracy has established itself as a form of government in many parts of the world. But you also have to admit that there is a lot of dissatisfaction with democracy and that many people long for 'strong men — or women — to really take action. Marcel Dirsus is a young German political scientist who knows this desire for strength and warns against it. He has written a highly acclaimed book called “How Tyrants Fall” and presented it at the Sydney Writers' Festival. But, he was asked, are there still many tyrants? - Die Demokratie hat sich als Regierungsform in vielen Teilen der Welt...
2025-05-2906 minConversationsThe miserable lives and golden guns of tyrants, dictators and despotsMarcel Dirsus is fascinated by the treadmill of tyranny: how dictators gain power, how they stay there and how they fall. This is his blueprint for bringing an end to authoritarianism.With democracies seemingly faltering worldwide, political scientist and writer Marcel Dirsus is putting tyrants under the microscope to better understand how they rise and how they fall.Years ago, Marcel took a break from his university studies and travelled to central Africa, where he took a job in a brewery.One day, while walking to work, he heard shots fired and an...
2025-05-2251 min
The Front PageHow dictators fall: Inside the vulnerabilities of tyrannical regimes and how people fight backAdolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin. Benito Mussolini. Pol Pot. Saddam Hussein. Apart from being some of the most famous dictators in human history, they all have one thing in common. They all had dramatic, violent, and disgraced downfalls. But, in almost every case, foreign powers played a major role in shaping the post-dictatorship future. How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive by political scientist Marcel Dirsus delves into the vulnerabilities of authoritarian regimes and explores strategies for their dismantling. Dirsus was recently in New Zealand for the Auckland Writers Festival, and joined...
2025-05-1918 min
Q+A with Jack TameWhy Chlöe Swarbrick wants taxes on wealthy, more debtWith Chlöe Swarbrick, Andrew Coster, Marcel Dirsus and Suze Redmayne
2025-05-1854 minForeign Times(ex Premium) ForeignTimes081 mit Marcel Dirsus über das Hamsterrad der DiktaturMarcel Dirsus hat das Buch 'How Tyrants Fall' geschrieben und bespricht mit Marco Herack wie Diktaturen funktionieren und welche Hoffnung für die Demmokratie besteht.
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2025-04-2250 min
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2025-04-0344 min
Einmischen! Politik PodcastKipppunkte, Putsche, stürzende Diktatoren und der Geist der FreiheitPodcast #281
Woop! Woop! Nach meinem Besuch auf der Leipziger Buchmesse bin ich zurück und es gibt ein volles Programm. Mit Grace Blakeley spreche ich über "Die Geburt der Freiheit aus dem Geist des Sozialismus" (Klett-Cotta), mit Georg Diez geht es um "Kipppunkte (Aufbau Verlag), mit Issio Ehrich um "Putsch" und die Coup d'Etat Sahelzone und zu guter Letzt gehe ich mit Marcel Dirsus der Frage nach "Wie Diktatoren stürzen" (KiWi Verlag).
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2025-03-314h 26Einmischen! Politik PodcastKipppunkte, Putsche, stürzende Diktatoren und der Geist der FreiheitPodcast #281
Woop! Woop! Nach meinem Besuch auf der Leipziger Buchmesse bin ich zurück und es gibt ein volles Programm. Mit Grace Blakeley spreche ich über "Die Geburt der Freiheit aus dem Geist des Sozialismus" (Klett-Cotta), mit Georg Diez geht es um "Kipppunkte (Aufbau Verlag), mit Issio Ehrich um "Putsch" und die Coup d'Etat Sahelzone und zu guter Letzt gehe ich mit Marcel Dirsus der Frage nach "Wie Diktatoren stürzen" (KiWi Verlag).
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Intro/Trenner/Outro: Joscha
Logo: Danny
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2025-03-314h 26
The Geopolitics & Power PodcastMarcel Dirsus | How Tyrant's FallCurious Worldview Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Zs20Bl4ftN4XPHtxnVAVB?si=hJCvtqvMR-iFq-HLdYt7RgYoutube - https://youtu.be/MntDK3kWRekCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeThe following is with German political scientist, former beer brewer in the Congo, and author of How Tyrants Fall - Marcel DirsusMarcel interviewed coup leaders, dissidents and soldiers to write about the workings and malfunctions of tyrants. Because while the individual personas, eccentricities and reputations might make them all distinct from one another, there are more threads...
2025-03-3150 min
Indicast - All PodcastsMarcel Dirsus on how tyrants fallEver wondered how a dictator survives for decades? If you think he does so without a care in the world, as I did, you are in for a surprise. Tyrants are probably amongst the most paranoid people in the world. Their single-minded determination to stay in power makes them do crazy things. They need to manage those who are close to them, bodyguards and palace elites included. Citizens can go to hell. But that doesn’t make their job any easier, says Dr Marcel Dirsus, the author of his latest book, “How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive”. Some like Saddam...
2025-02-2755 minIndicast - All PodcastsMarcel Dirsus on how tyrants fallEver wondered how a dictator survives for decades? If you think he does so without a care in the world, as I did, you are in for a surprise. Tyrants are probably amongst the most paranoid people in the world. Their single-minded determination to stay in power makes them do crazy things. They need to manage those who are close to them, bodyguards and palace elites included. Citizens can go to hell. But that doesn’t make their job any easier, says Dr Marcel Dirsus, the author of his latest book, “How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive”. Some like Saddam...
2025-02-2755 min
Curious WorldviewMarcel Dirsus | Slipping Into Authoritarianism & How Tyrant's FallYoutube - https://youtu.be/MntDK3kWRekCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribeThe following is with german political scientist, former beer brewer in the Congo, and author of How Tyrants Fall - Marcel DirsusMarcel interviewed coup leaders, dissidents and soldiers to write about the workings and malfunctions of tyrants. Because while the individual personas, eccentricities and reputations might make them all distinct from one another, there are more threads that draw disparate dictator's together than don’t.I think this excerpt from the book sums up th...
2025-02-191h 10DisorderEp97. Does Diplomatic Secrecy actually Work? And What’s Next for Centre-Left Politics?In this episode, Jason and Alex tackle some probing listener questions. They return to a theme from previous episodes (especially the previous episode with Marcel Dirsus): whether today’s autocratic regimes (China, Russia, Iran) are actually as strong as they appear or might be weaker than we imagine. In response to multiple listen questions on this theme, Alex and Jason debate the cultural and economic missteps of the center-left and the importance of addressing real voter concerns about the pace of social and culture change in the face of rising populism. Then the Disorder programme push...
2025-01-3043 min
The Jordan Harbinger Show1103: Marcel Dirsus | How Tyrants Fall and Nations SurviveWhat can a country do to shake its pesky dictator problem? How Tyrants Fall author Marcel Dirsus is here to explain why it's difficult but not impossible!
What We Discuss with Dr. Marcel Dirsus:
Dictators are trapped on what Dr. Marcel Dirsus calls "the dictator's treadmill" — they can't safely step down because they've committed too many crimes to retire peacefully, but must keep running to survive. Statistics show 69% of dictators end up imprisoned, exiled, or killed.
Dictators weaken their own militaries through "coup-proofing" — creating multiple competing security forces and promoting based on loyalty rather than competence. Whil...
2025-01-141h 25
Reader's Corner"How Tyrants Fall" by Marcel DirsusAn interview with Marcel Dirsus, author of How Tyrants Fall. The book is a deeply-researched examination of how dictators are overthrown, and what happens to nations in the aftermath.
2025-01-1132 min
Inside Cancer CareersColoTech: Engineering Students Tackle Early Colon Cancer DetectionIn this episode of Inside Cancer Careers, we hear from the winners of the 2024 NCI Technologies for Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis, or Treatment Prize, which is part of the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge managed by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering: three biomedical engineering alums from Stanford, Gabriel Seir, Shreya Garg, and Kelly Lopez-Cid, who developed ColoTech, a novel non-invasive screening technology for colorectal cancer. They discuss their project's ideation process, the medical experts' positive feedback, and the importance of accessibility in cancer diagnostics. The conversation also explores their personal journeys into STEM, their future...
2024-12-1941 min
Daily Politics from the New StatesmanWhat happens when a tyrant fleesOn Sunday Morning the sound of gunfire filled the air in Damascus. The noise, not of fighting, but celebrations. President Bashar al-Assad and his family had fled to Russia. A family which ruled for more than 50 years, brought down by a rebel offensive which had begun less than two weeks earlier. Kate Lamble is joined by Rajan Menon, Marcel Dirsus, and John Jenkins to discuss what's next for Syria, Assad, and the wider region.Read: The fall of Assad represents a revolution in the Middle East, by Rajan Menon; Bashar al-Assad will find no p...
2024-12-1131 minDisorderEp76. Can Sanctions help us Order the Disorder?Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the West initiated the most comprehensive economic war in human history. The US, EU, and UK announced a range of well-coordinated sanctions against Russia which included export restrictions, freezing assets, excluding the Russian Central Bank from SWIFT, and banning flights. It was an example of transcending the Enduring Disorder with the main Western powers working together seamlessly. But seen in hindsight were these effective? Did they degrade Russia’s fighting capacity? Does kicking a state out of the globalized economy actually hit Disordering states, like Putin’s Russia o...
2024-10-171h 06DisorderEp70. Peak Disorder in Bangladesh‘Peak Disorder’ is Jason’s coinage for: the democratic world’s inability to exert ordering capacity to respond to new challenges except if they are existentially pressing because we are simply too divided, distracted, and overtaxed by existing crises. This phenomenon of ‘peak disorder’ is epitomized over the last two months by events in Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s embattled prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, fled the country on Aug 5, 2024, after a brutal government crackdown against protests had resulted in hundreds of deaths. The country’s president, the armed forces, and political parties selected a temporary “caretaker” government led by Nobel laureate M...
2024-09-2653 minDisorderEp69. Life in North Korea, Kidnapping Stories, and Why Symbolism Matters with Dictators -- Jordan Harbinger on Tyrants and DisorderersWhat does getting kidnapped in Mexico City have in common with taking Western backpackers on tours of North Korean? Each provides key insights into the disordering essence of how autocracies function and why symbolism is important to dictatorial securocrats. This rather chatty episode builds off of our more academic and systematic look at similar themes in “Dictators’ Disordering Quest for Internal Security” with Marcel Dirsus last Tuesday in episode 67. In this episode, Jason is joined by the host of The Jordan Harbinger Show. The pair discuss: how Jordan got kidnapped (and Jason shares his own tale of...
2024-09-2448 minDisorderEp67. Dictators’ Disordering Quest for Internal SecurityFrom Putin to Qadhafi, from Mohammed bin Salman to Trump… our current era of Enduring Disorder is filled with many Tyrants and Tyrant-wannabes. But why do Tyrants tend to seek Disorder rather than Order? The answer appears to lie in Tyrants’ Endless Quest for Regime Security. Dictators have a marked predilection to put their own desire to cling to power in the short-and medium-term above all other considerations – even if that means deliberately making their countries’ economies and militaries inefficient or willfully spreading Disorder around the globe. To discuss the deep connections between Tyranny and Disorder, w...
2024-09-1755 min
This Is Not A Drill with Gavin EslerHow to take down the tyrantsWhat does it take to get rid of a dictator? How do these tyrannical figures cling onto power - and how does this power warp their decision-making? Can they ever know when someone is telling them the truth, when everyone around them lives in fear?To find out, Gavin Esler speaks to Marcel Dirsus, whose new book How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive serves as a guide on how to depose the despots. Buy How Tyrants Fall through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund This Is Not A Dri...
2024-09-1132 min
North Korea News Podcast by NK NewsMarcel Dirsus: What makes North Korea’s dictatorship unique from othersIn his newly published book, “How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive,” political scientist Marcel Dirsus examines the workings and malfunctions of dictators around the globe, including North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
He joins the podcast to discuss the differences between authoritarian systems, how tyrants come into and fall out of power, and the unique aspects of the DPRK’s leadership system.
Dr. Marcel Dirsus is a non-resident fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University in Germany, as well as a member of the Standing Expert Committee on Terrorism and Interior Security at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. He mainly wor...
2024-08-2258 min
Intelligence SquaredWhat Keeps Tyrants in Power? with Marcel DirsusMarcel Dirsus is a political scientist and the author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. As Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University, Dirsus mainly works on regime instability, political violence and German foreign policy. His new book takes us into the downfall of dictators ranging from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, as well as unpacking why some dictatorial leaders and regimes remain solid. Joining him in conversation for this episode is Hannah Lucinda Smith, Turkey correspondent for The Times and Monocle magazine and author of Erdogan Rising.
2024-08-0935 min
Iran: The LatestHow tyrants fallThe tyrant was once thought to be an endangered species. From Vladimir Putin to Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un, there is a new generation of leaders for life. But are they as strong as they look? Marcel Dirsus has written a book looking at that exact question. How tyrants fall. Is there a way to help them along the way? And is it always a good idea to do so?ContributorsRoland OliphantMarcel Dirsus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-07-3133 min
ZEITGEIST - The PodcastHow Tyrants Fall with Marcel DirsusAs a German historian, I think a lot about dictatorships — usually, about the age-old question of how tyrants rise. Marcel Dirsus turns this question on its head. How do tyrants fall? Uprisings? Palace intrigue? Peaceful protest? The author met with coup leaders, dissidents and soldiers to find answers. ZEITGEIST - The Podcast spoke to Marcel Dirsus for a fascinating teaser. You can pre-order the book here. Get full access to ZEITGEIST at www.katjahoyer.uk/subscribe
2024-07-0439 min
The ContinentBundes-where? Germany's Politics and Security in Changing timesIn the first episode Aaron speaks with Marcel Dirsus and Jana Puglierin about Germany's response to the war in Ukraine. Just how important is this political moment for Germany? What does it mean for Germany to boost its military potential — and how might it use it?This conversation was recorded live on Twitter Spaces on May 11, 2022.
2022-05-1646 min
Chain ReactionBundes-where? Germany's Politics and Security in Changing TimesThe Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is pleased to introduce a special Chain Reaction podcast series: The Continent.The Continent explores how the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's politics and security. Host Aaron Schwartzbaum will "visit" a country on each episode, learning about key dynamics and trends from local experts. In the first episode Aaron speaks with Marcel Dirsus and Jana Puglierin about Germany's response to the war in Ukraine. Just how important is this political moment for Germany? What does it mean for Germany to boost its military potential — and how might it use it...
2022-05-1246 min
Global MindsGMP005: Global Risks - Myanmar mit Marcel Dirsus
Marcel Dirsus, Politikwissenschaftler, Non-Resident Fellow am Institut für Sicherheitspolitik der Universität Kiel und Partner der Politikberatung Occam Strategies, berät Regierungen, internationale Organisationen und Unternehmen zu globalen Risiken.
Im Interview mit ihm sprechen wir über Risiken für global agierende Unternehmen am Beispiel von Myanmar:
Was passiert aktuell in Myanmar?
Was sind die größten Risiken?
Und wie können Unternehmen sich am besten gegen solche Risiken wappnen?
Hinweis: Die Folge wurde am 3. März 2021 aufgenommen.
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2021-03-2428 min
Paddy Wants To Know Brexit#6 | A French-Dutch-German SandwichIn the first half of the show the guys talk about Barnier’s visit to the the border, Dr Kathryn Simpson joins us to talk customs partnership and Max Fac while we discuss whether either of them are viable.
In the second half we get the Airbnb view of domestic politics from around the continent with local input from friends of the pod Raphaëlle, Sebastian and Marcel.
17:08: Raphaëlle Bohu discusses the emergence of Macron, the rightward shift of Les Republicains and life after the Bataclan attacks
28:25: Sebastian Weesjes is optimistic about what Brexit will mean for the Netherlands and...
2018-05-081h 03Paddy Wants To Know Brexit#4 | Russian gas, Brexit and divided loyaltiesWe're joined by political scientist Marcel Dirsus, an expert in Russian and East European Affairs, to unravel the Russian dolls and make sense of poisoning, gas and fake news.
We begin by mapping out the relationship between Russia and the European Union
[03:00] The alleged poisoning of Sergei Skripal and whether Russia is to blame
[06:45] Disunity within the European Union over Russia
[10:17] Sending a message on assassinations but not on property
[15:39] EU-Russia power balance post-Brexit
[17:07] A bluffer's guide to Nord Stream II and Russian gas
[19:21] RT and Fake news
For more on Marcel, see his website - http://www.marceldirsus.com/
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2018-04-0723 min