Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World — The Network Behind Dictatorship
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Anne Applebaum
This episode explores Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum as a systems-level analysis of how modern autocracy operates through financial secrecy, information laundering, surveillance technology, sanctions evasion, and institutional interdependence.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated regimes, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, technological, and…
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