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"The Paradox of Authoritarian Regimes"/ Lecture by Professor Stephen Kotkin, from Monday on CNA TV

2025-11-15 14:47:00, Aktualitet CNA

"The Paradox of Authoritarian Regimes"/ Lecture by Professor Stephen

CNA TV has acquired exclusive rights from renowned professor and scholar of history and geopolitics, Stephen Kotkin, to broadcast his academic lectures. This is one of the first cases in Albania where a media outlet broadcasts a university lecture of this level.

CNA will publish the following paper on the topic “The Paradox of Authoritarian Regimes”, a lecture given by Kotkin on September 18, 2012, at Dartmouth College. The event took place in the university auditorium and brought together students, academics, and those interested in international affairs.

In this presentation, Kotkin explains the fundamental paradoxes of authoritarian regimes, political systems that appear strong at first glance, but are essentially filled with structural weaknesses and internal contradictions.

CNA will begin publishing on Monday at 8:30 PM with the first part of the lecture, which will cover:

1. The Paradox of Dictatorship: Absolute Power, Permanent Fragility

2. Violence and Money: The Two Fundamental Pillars of Authoritarian Control

Other parts will be published in the future, which include:

3. Mass control and propaganda

4. The paradox of success in authoritarian regimes

5. The problem of the offspring

6. Challenges after dictatorship

7. Question and answer session

Stephen Kotkin is currently a professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University and at the Hoover Institution. He is affiliated with several research centers such as APARC, CDDRL, and The Europe Center.

With a doctorate from UC Berkeley and over three decades of research at the Hoover Archives, Kotkin is one of the most prominent analysts of contemporary authoritarianism and geopolitics. He has also contributed as a reviewer and essayist to prestigious platforms such as the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Wall Street Journal./ CNA