Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run
the World Hardcover – July 23, 2024
by Anne Applebaum (Author)
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
masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear-sighted and
fearless… a masterclass in the marriage of dodgy government to international
criminality… (both) deeply disturbing.”—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.
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