Europe in a Time of War: Conversation with Anne Applebaum

"The Forum: Europe in a Time of War" is a year-long event series co-sponsored by Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Ukrainian Research Institute.

The conversation will focus on the rise of autocratic regimes and policies in the modern world and on the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, themes Anne Applebaum discusses in her bestselling Autocracy, Inc. (2025). Autocracies, she argues in the book, are connected by sophisticated national and transnational networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services, and professional propagandists. They don't share an ideology, but they do have a common goal: to defeat the ideas and language of liberal democracy, inside their own countries and around the world.

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