Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. Democracy Goes into Reverse 1
5. 2. How We Got Here 34
6. 3. The Fourth Wave 49
7. 4. It’s the Economy, Stupid: The Consensus Fails 65
8. 5. The Middle Class Revolts 77
9. 6. Graft, Graft, and More Graft 101
10. 7. The China Model 117
11. 8. The Autocrats Strike Back 135
12. 9. Failure of the Emerging Powers 153
13. 10. Failure of the West 170
14. 11. Prescriptions for the Future 199
15. Appendix: Egypt 237
16. Notes 241
17. Index 275