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Mentioned in 31 episodes
Autocracy, Inc.
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Book • 2024
In 'Autocracy, Inc.', Anne Applebaum provides a detailed analysis of how modern autocracies operate, highlighting their sophisticated networks of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists.
These autocratic regimes, spanning countries like China, Russia, and Iran, collaborate across borders to maintain power and undermine democracy.
Applebaum argues that international condemnation and economic sanctions are ineffective against these autocrats and calls for democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to combat this new threat.
The book serves as both a historical investigation and a practical guide for defending democratic values against the rising tide of autocracy.
These autocratic regimes, spanning countries like China, Russia, and Iran, collaborate across borders to maintain power and undermine democracy.
Applebaum argues that international condemnation and economic sanctions are ineffective against these autocrats and calls for democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to combat this new threat.
The book serves as both a historical investigation and a practical guide for defending democratic values against the rising tide of autocracy.
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Mentioned in 31 episodes
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in the context of autocracy versus democracy and its impact on investing.

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as the author of the recently released book.


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as her newest book, focusing on modern autocracies and the tension between autocracy and democracy.


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as the guest of the podcast and author of several books on authoritarianism.


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in the podcast as her book.


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as the author of the book discussed in the podcast.


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as 

's most recent book, exploring the workings of autocracies.

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as the author's books, including "Autocracy, Inc."


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as a book discussed in a previous episode.

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as her newest title, to be released this summer.


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as her more recent book about modern autocrats.


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as one of the arguments in her book about autocratic coalitions.


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, who says Anne Applebaum will be back to discuss its paperback release.

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as a book that helped shape his understanding of the world.

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200: BEST OF: Anne Applebaum on her book Autocracy, Inc.
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as a book predicting the current political climate.


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om te begrijpen hoe autocratische regimes met elkaar verweven zijn in internationale netwerken.


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in the context of what can be seen on someone else's Amazon page.


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