By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World provides a compelling analysis of how modern autocracies, though ideologically diverse, are united by a single-minded pursuit: preserving their wealth and power. She argues that today’s autocrats, ruling countries from Russia to China to Venezuela, do not form ideological blocs like those of the Cold War era, but are instead bound by ‘deals’ rather than “ideals’. This network of regimes operates much like corporations, hence the title ‘Autocracy, Inc.’ Elaborating on this in a podcast broadcas…