{"product_id":"autocracy-inc-anne-applebaum-9780385549936","title":"Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAutocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World | Anne Applebaum\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe think we know what an autocratic state looks like: \u003c\/strong\u003eThere is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eCorrupt companies in one country do business with corrupt companies in another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInternational condemnation and economic sanctions cannot move the autocrats.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven popular opposition movements, from Venezuela to Hong Kong to Moscow, don't stand a chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe members of \u003cem\u003eAutocracy, Inc.\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Applebaum\u003c\/strong\u003e calls for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSummary:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World\u003c\/em\u003e is a 2024 non-fiction book written by Pulitzer Prize winner \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Applebaum \u003c\/strong\u003eand published by Doubleday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAnne Applebaum: American Journalist \u0026amp; Historian\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter seventeen years as a columnist at The Washington Post; \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Applebaum\u003c\/strong\u003e became a staff writer at The Atlantic in January 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is the author of five critically acclaimed and award-winning books: \u003cem\u003eTwilight of Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRed Famine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIron Curtain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBetween East and West\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGulag\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe divides her time between Poland, where her husband is foreign minister, and Washington, D.C.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50342044762427,"sku":"0385549938","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9780385549936.jpg?v=1777099370","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/autocracy-inc-anne-applebaum-9780385549936","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}