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Unstable Regimes

The Succession Dilemma

Torrey Taussig

From Ankara to Beijing to Moscow, the world’s powerful autocrats are consolidating personalized control with no clear succession plan—a trend that portends greater internal and international volatility.

Published on: March 14, 2018

Torrey Taussig is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.