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Barcode30053003779421
StatusChecked Out
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No321.9 APPL
Title Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world / Anne Applebaum.
Author Applebaum, Anne, 1964- author.
CollectionAdult 300-399
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
Checked OutParis-Bourbon30053003779421321.9 APPL7/31/2024 Due on 11/11/2024

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Personal Name Applebaum, Anne, 1964- author.
Title Statement Autocracy, Inc. : the dictators who want to run the world / Anne Applebaum.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Doubleday, [2024]
Physical Description 207 pages ; 20 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-207).
Formatted Contents Note The greed that binds -- Kleptocracy metastasizes -- Controlling the narrative -- Changing the operating system -- Smearing the democrats -- Epilogue: Democrats united.
Summary, Etc. "From 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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Power (Social sciences) Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Dictatorship Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Democracy Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Political corruption Cross-cultural studies.

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