Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum *Released 07.23.24

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 multipl