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Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

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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. Affaires mondiales Idéologies et doctrines Moderne Politique XXIe siècle Chine Russie Union soviétique Socialisme Moyen-Orient Iran

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Eye opener on the influence of targeted misinformation and the influence of social media and companies on the state of democracy.

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the entire view of global politics is based on author's personal opinion of untrue dichotomy. it is simply not common sense. as world event unfolds in front of our eyes, the book is getting slapped on the face over and over again. US, the knight of democracy is now economically coercing its European democratic allies for territory in the Arctic. its baffling how a book so highly rated can be contradicted so blatantly within a few years of publishing. the only answer, it simply missed. I have to commend the breadth of events covered in the book. while lacking analysis and reads like a overly broad freshman essay, it makes a good short digest while driving to and from work. aka not much thinking needed, best to focus on driving safely.

personal opinion cherry picked into a book

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I've enjoyed Anne Applebaum's historical work, and I broadly share her liberal-positivist view of the world (the existence of universal human rights, the superiority of democracy as an organizing principle). She reiterates a lot of these here, framing them as being under threat from a growing and organized 'autocracy inc'. However... The events in Gaza (she does mention the Hamas incursion and murders of 7 Oct 2023) aren't really mentioned, because they detract from the idea that liberal, democratic states are the best arbiters of moral action - the US continues to support what the UN has described as a possible genocide. Peter Beinart says it better than I can here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/29/why-do-americas-liberal-hawks-attack-russia-while-giving-israel-a-free-pass.

A good summary, but with one obvious blindspot

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