The celebrated historian and journalist, Anne Applebaum joins Luke Harding to uncover the networks trying to destroy the democratic world – and how we can stop them.

 Anne Applebaum has been tracking the slide away from democracy for decades. But what is happening right now is new: autocracies are working together to stay in power.

Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks relying on kleptocratic financial structures, security services—military, paramilitary, police—and technological experts who provide surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation. Centralised autocracies include Russian, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Angola, Myanmar, Cuba, Syria, Zimbabwe and perhaps three dozen others.

Now joining award winning foreign correspondent Luke Harding, she will share how rogue states survive under sanctions, how their money goes round and how they are re-writing the language of the post-war ‘rules based order’.

The democratic world is in denial about how it has unwittingly helped to consolidate this new reality. What we stand to lose is our ability to dictate our own economic future and possibly our democratic systems. Join us online to learn the urgent radical changes needed to keep democracy in place, and why we need to act now.

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