Authoritania

On this episode, we discuss the proper ways to prevent the rise of your regime's critics and dissenters abroad through the creative methods of transnational authoritarianism. We'll take a look at tactics from surveilling international students to murdering journalists. How fun and uplifting!

On our first minisode, we give you a quick rundown on one of the last Communist autocrats of Cold War Europe, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.

On this episode, we discuss how to crack down on your dissidents and revolutionaries against your new autocratic state by forming your own secret police service. We also discuss the history of security agencies, US black sites, forced disappearances, and other lovely hallmarks of a functioning autocracy.

On this episode we explore totalitarian tastes, dictator design, and how the clothes you love support the autocrats you hate. Learn how to design your own fabulous fascist state using lessons from Italy, Germany, China, and more!

On this episode, Nikhil walks you through how to create a cult of personality and become something beyond a political leader by examining the Aliyev family in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Why be a king, when you can be a god? 

On the pilot episode of Authoritania, Nikhil takes us through how to turn a democracy into a dictatorship in just three easy steps.  We'll take a look at historical examples of autocracy in action in the US, Turkey, and India as we begin our journey in creating our own authoritarian state.