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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Are the Bad Guys REALLY Winning?
Description: What does historian and journalist Anne Applebaum mean by âthe 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverseâ?
Whether we like it or not, global politics today is defined by confrontationâwhich could lead to conflictâbetween autocracies and democracies. However, unlike the great geopolitical divisions of the past, the new dividing lines are not ideological or ethnic or religious or economic. Rather, the two camps are defined by how their leaders come to and maintain themselves in power. The autocracies seem to have figured out they have much in common, including fear of democracy, and translate that und...