Anne Applebaum writes that autocracies are now being run by sophisticated networks fuelled by surveillance and disinformation
, Diamond argued that a mere 43 countries with a population above one million were democracies, which represents a significant drop of roughly 20 points since 2006. While the world is fixated on Donald Trump and the United States – indeed a story for democratic decline and a slide toward autocracy – self-government is under threat in parts of Asia , sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe.
Applebaum argues that contemporary autocracies bear little resemblance to the “cartoon image” we have of them in our mind of a lone strong man atop a police state. Autocracies are, by nature, enemies of democracy and vice versa, Applebaum argues, suggesting “the enemy is us.” Nonetheless, the existence of autocracies and their success is bound up with the democratic world – or what one might more precisely label the liberal world.
In a book that runs short on pages for its subject’s complexity – 176 pages of text in the hardbound edition – Applebaum recounts the strategies and tactics of Autocracy, Inc. These amount to a sophisticated series of financial, technological, military and police operations at home and abroad.’s swift pacing makes it accessible but leaves on the table deeper discussions of the claim we’ve entered a new Cold War.
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