King Zog, Albania's interwar dictator / Bernd J. Fischer
King Aleksandar and the royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia / Brigit Farley
Carol II of Romania / Maria Bucur
Boris III, Tsar of the Bulgarians / Frederick Chary
Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey / Feroz Ahmad
Ioannis Metaxas and the "Fourth of August" dictatorship in Greece / S. Victor Papacosma
Ante Pavelić and the Ustaša State in Croatia / John K. Cox
Enver Hoxha and the Stalinist dictatorship in Albania / Bernd J. Fischer
Strongmen can be beneficial: the exceptional case of Josip Broz Tito / John V. A. Fine
Nicolae Ceaușescu, the "Great genius of the Carpathians" / Robert Forrest
Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria's long-time communist leader / Stefan Krause
George Papadopoulos and the dictatorship of the Colonels, 1967-1974 / Despina Papadimitriou
The Milošević dictatorship: institutionalizing power and ethno-populism in Serbia / Lenard J. Cohen.
