Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum, 2024 | Geopolitics

📖 Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum (2024)
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Unmasking Autocracy Inc.: Anne Applebaum's Global Kleptocracy

In this episode, we delve into Anne Applebaum's book 'Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.' The discussion reveals how modern autocrats operate more like a network of business corporations than ideologically unified regimes. The focus is on maintaining power and wealth, facilitated through international collaboration, financial secrecy, and information warfare. Key examples include Belarus, Russia, and Venezuela, highlighting how these regimes sustain themselves despite global condemnation. The episode also examines how Western financial systems have inadvertently enabled autocratic kleptocracies and stresses the need for transparency and de-risking in democratic countries to combat this pervasive threat.

00:00 Introduction to Autocracy Inc.
00:48 The Modern Strongmen: A New Game
01:22 Corporate Structure of Autocracy Inc.
01:54 Case Studies: Belarus and Venezuela
03:14 Western Complicity and Financial Secrecy
06:23 Transnational Repression and Information Warfare
12:37 Countering Kleptocracy: Transparency and De-risking
13:40 Conclusion: Building an Anti-Kleptocracy Coalition

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