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energyservices this is FRESH AIR.
I'm Tanya Moseley, and my guest today is Ann Applebaum, who has been writing for years about the rise in authoritarianism around the world and the erosion of democracy.
Her latest book, Autocracy, the Dictators who want to run the world, is a potent read on how today's autocracies are not just ruled by one powerful leader, but are instead a sophisticated, interconnected network.
She reveals how they collaborate and support each other through financial systems, technology and propaganda that spans well beyond their borders.
This loose network, which includes nations like Russia, China and North Korea, isn't an alliance.
They don't share an ideology, but they do have one thing in common, they don't like us, and they're growing more powerful in the fight against democracy.
Applebaum says in order to fight this threat, democracies like the US have to fundamentally reorient their policies.
Anne Applebaum is the author of several books, including a history which won the Pulitzer Prize, Iron Curtain, the Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944 to 1956, and the best selling Twilight of democracy, the seductive lure of authoritarianism.
She's a columnist for the Atlantic and a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University.
Ann Applebaum, welcome back to FResh Air.
Thanks for having me.
In your last book, the Twilight of Democracy, you were focused on those who make a tyrant possible.