Historian Anne Applebaum reveals the aggressive tactics behind an international autocratic alliance and shows how it is undermining our democracy.
Wednesday, 20. November 2024, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
Today, sophisticated networks form an international autocratic alliance. From China to Belarus and Syria to Russia, autocrats support each other: from propaganda troll farms and bots to investment opportunities for corrupt state-owned enterprises and cutting-edge surveillance technologies.
Applebaum reveals the aggressive tactics behind them and shows how the autocratic alliance is undermining our democracy.
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broadcast live and made available for replay.
Anne Applebaum, born in 1964, is a historian and journalist. A Pulitzer Prize winner, she began her career in 1988 as a correspondent for The Economist in Warsaw, from where she covered the collapse of communism, and is one of the most accomplished connoisseurs of Russia. Today she is a staff writer for The Atlantic as well as a Senior Fellow at the Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University. She has received numerous awards for her journalistic work, most recently the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2024.