Mark Jones: How fascism happens

Also, we interview Fawaz A. Gerges about Iran, Gaza, and more, and Zhang Jun, Yi Fuxian, and others consider the Chinese overcapacity puzzle. [View this message in a web browser]( AUGUST 30, 2024 This week in PS Longer Reads, Mark Jones of University College Dublin revisits Hitler's rise to power now that political violence and attacks on democracy are intensifying. [Read now](. In PS Say More, we interview Fawaz A. Gerges about Iran, Gaza, US foreign policy, and more. [Read now](. And in PS Big Picture, Yu Yongding, Arvind Subramanian, Zhang Jun, and Yi Fuxian consider the factors behind China’s excess industrial capacity and what the future may hold for Chinese manufacturing. [Read now](. [PS Longer Reads: How Fascism Happens]( [How Fascism Happens]( By Mark Jones In the face of renewed threats to democracy, historical knowledge of past dictatorships becomes as important as ever. After all, the Holocaust and World War II show what can happen when democracies allow themselves to be undermined from within. [Read more]( [Save 30% on a new PS Digital subscription with our special introductory offer.]( [PS Say More: Fawaz A. Gerges on Iran, Gaza, US foreign policy, and more]( [An interview with Fawaz A. Gerges on Iran, Gaza, US foreign policy, and more]( Fawaz A. Gerges argues that a crisis of US democracy is blocking substantive change in America’s Middle-East policy, highlights the disastrous legacies of US interventions in Iran and Guatemala, fears that Israel’s war in Gaza will engulf the region, and more. Gerges is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and the author of [What Really Went Wrong: The West and the Failure of Democracy in the Middle East](. [Read more]( [PS Big Picture: The Chinese Overcapacity Puzzle]( [The Chinese Overcapacity Puzzle]( with Yu Yongding, Arvind Subramanian, Zhang Jun, and Yi Fuxian Several developments in recent years, from sustained renminbi appreciation to increasingly aggressive Western tariffs, should have eroded China’s global manufacturing dominance, but have not. Why has China’s share of global manufacturing exports continued to rise, and what might turn the tide? [Read more]( [Get unlimited access to everything Project Syndicate has to offer with PS Premium.]( [PS Longer Reads: Is Democracy Really in Retreat?]( [Is Democracy Really in Retreat?]( By Helmut K. Anheier, Edward L. Knudsen, and Joseph C. Saraceno Is state capacity sufficient to deliver consistent improvements in quality of life, even in the absence of robust democratic accountability? While Westerners long insisted that the answer must be no, China and other socioeconomically successful autocracies have demonstrated that the question is far from settled. [Read more]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.