The Fragile Dictator: Counterintelligence Pathologies in Authoritarian States - Hardcover

by Blake W. Mobley (Author), Carl A. Wege (Author)

This book examines digital mass surveillance in authoritarian regimes, highlighting the role of security services. It argues that globalization hasn't diminished dictatorships, and urges Western countries to adopt new strategies to counter digitally-enhanced authoritarianism, which poses a growing challenge to liberal democracies.

Author Biography

Blake W. Mobley served at the Central Intelligence Agency as a counterintelligence officer and is the author of Terrorism and Counterintelligence: How Terrorist Groups Elude Detection (Columbia University Press, 2012).

Carl A. Wege is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, Georgia