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This portrait gallery draws the profiles of some of the "neo-authoritarians", dictators and other autocrats, who govern large parts of the world today.
Vladimir Putine
President of the Russian Federation
Portrait by Quentin Peel, freelance journalist and associate fellow with the Europe Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) in London.
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary
Portrait par par Jacques Rupnik, directeur de recherche au Centre de recherches internationales de Sciences Po (CERI) et professeur à Sciences Po.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of the Republic of Turkey
Portrait by François Livet, high-ranking French civil servant familiar with Turkey.
MBS and MBZ
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Chairman of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi
Double portrait byAhmed Fathi, academic familiar with the Gulf monarchies.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Portrait by Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor at Science-Po and eminent expert of the Middle East.
Bashar al-Assad
President of the Syrian Arab Republic
Portrait by Michel Duclos, Former Ambassador in Syria and Special Advisor Geopolitics at Institut Montaigne.
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India
Portrait by Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS and specialist of India.
Xi Jinping
President of the People's Republic of China
Portrait by François Godement, Senior Advisor for Asia Program at Institut Montaigne.
Donald Trump
President of the United States
Portrait by Alexis Clérel, Personality from the media related to American politics.
Matteo Salvini
Italian Minister of the Interior
Portrait by by Marc Lazar, professor at Sciences Po and eminent expert of Italy.
Jarosław Kaczyński
Former Polish Prime Minister of Poland, Chairman of the political party Law and Justice
Portrait by Aleksander Smolar, a Franco-Polish journalist and political researcher who is also President of the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw.
Rodrigo Duterte
President of the Philippines
Portrait by François-Xavier Bonnet, associate researcher with the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (Irasec)
Kim Jong-un
Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Portrait by Bruno Tertrais, Deputy Director at the Foundation for Strategic Research
Benyamin Netanyahu
Prime minister of Israel
Portrait by Anshel Pfeffer, Israeli journalist
Paul Kagame
President of the Republic of Rwanda
Portrait by Gérard Prunier, Historian and Horn of Africa Specialist
Nicolás Maduro
President of Venezuela
Portrait by Olivier Dabène, professor at Sciences Po and one of Latin America's finest connoisseurs.
Jair Bolsonaro
President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Portrait by Frédéric Louault, great Brazil specialist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Face aux néo-autoritaires
Éléments pour une réponse politique
Conclusion about Neo-Authoritarians saga by Michel Duclos, Special Advisor - geopolitics for Institut Montaigne.