Marcel Dirsus and Brian Klaas explore how dictators fall, the chaos they leave behind, and the path nations navigate between recovery and collapse.
Dr. Marcel Dirsus
Dr. Marcel Dirsus is a political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive (2024). He writes The Hundred newsletter and is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University. His work focuses on regime instability, political violence, and German foreign policy. Dr. Dirsus has advised democratic governments, multinational corporations, NATO, and the OECD. His research has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He earned his doctorate at the University of Kiel and holds a master’s from the University of Oxford in Russian & East European Studies.
Brian Klaas
Dr Brian Klaas is an Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London and a columnist for the Washington Post. Klaas is also a frequent television commentator and political consultant. He was previously based at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. He is also the host of the Power Corrupts podcast. He has advised governments, US political campaigns, NATO, the European Union, multi-billion dollar investors, international NGOs, and international politicians.
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