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It argues that modern autocracies cooperate as a networked system.
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History, Society & Current Affairs
Autocracy, Inc.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
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Doubleday (Penguin Random House)
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World is a work of nonfiction by the historian Anne Applebaum, published by Doubleday in July 2024.
- Published
- 2024
- Pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
The old picture of dictatorship - one strongman, one closed country - is obsolete, argues Anne Applebaum, and Autocracy, Inc. sketches what has replaced it: a networked syndicate of autocracies that trade, launder, surveil and prop one another up across ideological lines.
Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and others cooperate less from shared belief than from shared interest in staying in power, aided by Western banks, lawyers and technologies.
Applebaum, a historian of totalitarianism, writes with concision and authority, turning a sprawling subject into a short, alarming field guide. intendle recommends it for anyone trying to understand why democracy has been losing ground worldwide, and how the autocratic world actually functions. A New York Times bestseller and a Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist title, it names a system that had been hiding in plain sight.
Bracing and clarifying, it insists that defending democracy requires understanding the machinery arrayed against it.
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224
Published
2024
Doubleday (Penguin Random House)
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English
History, Society & Current Affairs
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978-0385549936
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