The New DespotismAn Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year A disturbing in depth expos of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world. One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent and self regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a