As WorldOregon heads into its 75th year, join us as we celebrate part of our origin story as the region's preeminent global affairs organization: the power of small-group discussion!  Starting in December, WorldOregon convenes a book-salon and discussion series with new and notable titles that connect us to a rich landscape of global issues and ideas!  We are very excited to be working with our treasured community partners at Broadway Books for this series. 

Saturday, December 14, 2–4pm
Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc.
We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran.  In this urgent treatise, Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy,  calls for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat.

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