A Question of Order
India Turkey and the Return of Strongmen

What happens when a democratically elected leader evolves into an authoritarian ruler limiting press freedom civil liberties and religious and ethnic tolerance

India and Turkey are two of the worlds biggest democraciesmultiethnic nations that rose from their imperial past to be founded on the values of modernity They have fair elections open markets and freedom of religion

Yet this is an account of how the charismatic strongmen Narendra Modi in India and Recep Tayyip Erdoan in Turkey used the power they had won as elected heads of state to push their countries toward authoritarian ways