Tue, 27 May
|Kambri Cinema
Meet the author- Marcel Dirsus "How Tyrants Fall"
Author and political scientist Dr Marcel Dirsus will be in conversation with Allan Behm, Director, International & Security Affairs Program at the Australia Institute, on Dirsus' book "How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive."
Time & Location
27 May 2025, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Kambri Cinema, The Australian National University Cultural Centre, Kambri Precinct, ANU, Acton ACT 2601, Australia
About the event
Marcel Dirsus will be in conversation with Allan Behm on his book How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive.
Strongmen are rising. Democracies are faltering. How does tyranny end? Tyrants project invincibility, but all of them fall. This is because they face critical weaknesses that can form a fatal trap. Whether it's their inner circle turning against them or resentment of elites in the military, the masses alienated by cronyism or revolutionaries plotting in exile, tyrants always have more enemies than friends. And when they fall tyrants don't quietly retire - they face exile, prison or death. What happens in the aftermath can change the fate of a nation.
Dr. Marcel Dirsus is a political scientist who writes The Hundred, a politics newsletter. In addition to being a Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University in Germany, he is a member of the Standing Expert Committee, Terrorism and Interior Security, at…