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EPISODE · Jul 5, 2025 · 35 MIN

How to topple a tyrant

from The Foreign Desk · host Monocle

As last year’s rapid descent of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad attests, when a dictator falls, they fall fast. But what are the conditions under which that fall occurs? And how can they be sparked?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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