Book Review

Autocracy, Inc. – The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Indian Naval Despatch: Volume 6. No. 3 | by Mayuresh Singh

Published Date: August 2026 | 4 min read | 7 Views

Autocracy, Inc. – The Dictators Who Want to Run the World Author: Anne Applebaum Published by: Doubleday, Edition: 2024 ISBN: 978-0-241-62789-3 Pages: 228 Book Review by Commander Mayuresh Singh Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc. is an engaging and insightful book that examines how authoritarianism has adapted in the modern era. Instead of a single dictator commanding through fear and ideology, Applebaum portrays a new…

through money, technology and influence. She argues that this loose but effective network of regimes, which she calls Autocracy, Inc., is united not by political belief but by a shared interest in maintaining power and wealth. She writes that twenty-first century autocracies operate more like networks, run by groups of

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