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Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

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Av: Anne Applebaum
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Times

"A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear-sighted and fearless.”—John Simpson, The Guardian

"Especially timely."—The Washington Post

We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents.

But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran. Corrupt companies in one country do business with corrupt companies in another. The police in one country can arm and train the police in another, and propagandists share resources and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America.

International condemnation and economic sanctions cannot move the autocrats. Even popular opposition movements, from Venezuela to Hong Kong to Moscow, don't stand a chance. The members of Autocracy, Inc, aren't linked by a unifying ideology, like communism, but rather a common desire for power, wealth, and impunity. In this urgent treatise, which evokes George Kennan's essay calling for "containment" of the Soviet Union, Anne Applebaum calls for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat. Neuere Politik & Regierungen

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Nothing the book is excellent. It is a perfect summary of the last 10 years

Excellent analysis Excellent documentation As always… And after today s election : terrifying

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Liberal democracies are on the retreat both internally as well as through external pressure and teaming up by autocrats. Anna Appelbaum offers a sharp analysis of the situation, a call for waking up out of our complacency particularly in Europe.

A sharp analysis

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a strong apeal for democrats of the world to unite, to fight against kleptocracy and autocracy

strong and insightful

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insightful. Very alarming. I hope this information will spread far and wide. Our future depends on it.

one of the most important books of the present

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I found Anne Applebaum's thesis and framing to be compelling. Her narration was also excellent - unusually so for an author narrating their own book. The only disappointment was that the outlook is grim. I do think that this is realistic, so it's important to portray accurately, as the author has done. However she did promise in the intro that she would finish with a guide to how liberal democraties could win against the threat of Autocracy, Inc. Sadly, in truth, the end of book only offered the flimsiest, most self-delusional pretense of this. The measures she proposes have already been shown to not work, or not be enough. I hope that we the free world will come up with better ideas, that work, before it's too late.

Rings depressingly true

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