Autocracy, Inc.

Autocracy, Inc. (2024) explores the intricate networks that link modern authoritarian regimes, highlighting how they collaborate through financial corruption, surveillance technologies, and propaganda to weaken democratic institutions globally. It reveals that these regimes, while not united by ideology, are bound together by a shared pursuit of power and impunity, challenging the democratic world in unprecedented ways.

• Students and scholars of political science and international relations
• Advocates and activists working to defend democracy and human rights
• Business leaders and economists interested in global market dynamics under autocratic regimes

Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist known for her deep expertise in authoritarian regimes and Eastern European history. Her main merits include her extensive work on the Soviet Union and its legacy, as well as her insightful analysis of contemporary political trends. She has authored several best-selling books, including Gulag: A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, and Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.