RT Book
T1 Autocracy, Inc: the dictators who want to run the world
A1 Applebaum, Anne 1964-
LA English
PP New York NY
PB Doubleday
YR 2024
ED First edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1886910626
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references
CN JC495
SN 978-0-385-54993-6
K1 21. Jahrhundert (ca. 2000 bis ca. 2100)
K1 21st Century
K1 Dictatorship : Cross-cultural studies
K1 Political corruption : Cross-cultural studies
K1 Power (Social sciences) : Cross-cultural studies
K1 Democracy : Cross-cultural studies
K1 21st century history: from c 2000 -
K1 General & world history
K1 Geopolitics
K1 Geopolitik
K1 Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
K1 HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
K1 POL062000
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General
K1 Political Ideologies
K1 Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen
K1 Autokratie : Korruption : Propaganda : Kontrolle : Überwachungseinrichtung : Macht