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A new world of autocratic alliances
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Russia, China, Syria, Zimbabwe and Venezuela don’t have much in common when it comes to ideology or politics. But their rulers are bound by one shared interest: Personal power. And Anne Applebaum says autocrats across the globe are now working together to make sure they keep that power.
Guest
Anne Applebaum, Staff writer at The Atlantic. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the SNF Agora Institute. Her latest book is Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World.