cult of personality

The public-facing celebration “amounts to a personality cult hitherto unseen in contemporary Indian politics.”

Narendra Modi has created one of the most powerful political brands in India’s history. But that centralization of power creates its own weaknesses.

Aung San Suu Kyi's cult of personality is continuously projected within Myanmar even while it expires internationally.

Discussing one-man rule, the re-Partyization of the bureaucracy, and the end of China's reform era.

Global coverage of Turkmenistan shows the power of personality cults to set agendas far beyond national boundaries.

An important building block in any cult of personality is a whole shelf of laudatory texts.

Kazakhstan renamed Astana's international airport after the first and current president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev.

A new banknote with Nazarbayev's image and a possible eponymous renaming of Astana may signal a potential departure.

Guo Boxiong is the latest PLA 'tiger' to fall to Xi's anti-corruption campaign.

Instead, we should be aware of anti-reforms forces as reforms enter ‘deep water’ areas.

China's painful experiences with personality cults in politics have lessons for two modern-day figures.