Autocracy, Inc by Anne Applebaum

Autocracy, Inc. is Anne Applebaum’s sharp analysis of how modern dictatorships really work. She argues that today’s autocracies are no longer lone strongmen ruling by fear alone, but members of loose networks that share money, surveillance tools and propaganda techniques to stay in power.

Applebaum shows how kleptocratic finance, information warfare and mutual support link very different regimes across the world, and sets out how democracies can organise to push back. Concise and clearly argued, it is an essential guide for readers following current affairs, international politics and the defence of liberal democracy.

• Author: Anne Applebaum
• Publisher: Vintage
• Format: Paperback, 240 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780593471203