Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
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"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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Anne Applebaum. (2024). Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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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 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.
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The noted journalist and student of tyranny turns her attention to Trump, Putin, and numerous other modern authoritarians. "A world in which autocracies work together to stay in power, work together to promote their system, and work together to damage democracies is not some distant dystopia," writes Applebaum. "That world is the one we are living in right now." In the meantime, she notes, democracies, as if paralyzed, accommodate both the lawlessness of the autocrats and the violence they incite: Witness, for instance, the growing myth that Jan. 6, 2021, was acceptable political expression. Whereas autocrats once worked singly, today they're shored up by an international kleptocracy and shared understandings--don't criticize my oppressiveness, and I won't criticize yours--that make allies of disparate rulers from Washington to Budapest to Harare. These rulers are shameless, Applebaum notes. They no longer bother to disguise their acts of aggression and brutality, as with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, a declaration that old rules no longer applied. Autocrats differ in style, but they share a hatred for an independent judiciary, representative government, and the free press--i.e., all the hallmarks of democracy. Against this, Applebaum suggests, it behooves the democratic nations of the world to band together in mutual support precisely because "their democracies are not safe." One means of support would be to reject news that comes from the likes of Russia Today and Xinhua, which inform so much antidemocratic dissension in the "free world," and instead insist on reliable information. Exactly how this is to be achieved isn't quite clear, but it's a worthy idea, as is the suggestion that increased policing of kleptocratic antics and their enablers--not least "the bankers in Sioux Falls happy to accept mystery deposits from mystery clients"--is needed. Central to any discussion of modern totalitarianism.COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Applebaum (staff writer, The Atlantic; Twilight of Democracy) explores the connections between autocratic states. She argues that autocracies such as China and Russia are motivated by a shared ideology and desire to increase their own wealth and power. Therefore, she asserts, they cooperate to enrich themselves and to undermine democracies and ideals which threaten their goals. Her book shows that autocracies create their own networks of support to circumnavigate international sanctions, reduce transparency, encourage corruption, and advocate for changing international laws and norms for their own benefit. Additionally, they utilize similar strategies to discredit democracies and dissenters. She explores topics such as money laundering, surveillance, propaganda, and resistance movements to show the similarities in tactics between autocratic states and analyzes how their activities can spill over into democracies. The author clearly explains why autocratic tactics have been effective and uses examples of historic and recent events in places such as China, Russia, Belarus, Venezuela and Zimbabwe to illustrate. Her book includes recommendations for democracies to combat autocracies, which include transparency and joint action. VERDICT A fascinating and alarming look at authoritarian cooperation. Will appeal to readers interested in political science and the preservation of democracy.--Rebekah Kati
Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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