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“Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”

Bribe, Swindle or Steal

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Are We Enabling Authoritarians?

Ruth Ben Geat is the author of Strongman, Mussolini to the Present. She says strongmen's power depends on a transnational networks of enablers. The U.S. and offshore finance are among those enabling autocrats, she says. To end autocracy, "you have to go after their money," writes Ben Geat.

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