CDE Conversations with Anne Applebaum: The rise of authoritarianism and the future of democracy

Anne Applebaum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic. She is a Senior Fellow of International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and she was a Washington Post columnist for more than fifteen years and a member of the editorial board. She has also worked as the Foreign and Deputy Editor of the Spectator magazine, and as a columnist at Slate as well as the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. She is the author of several acclaimed books, including Autocracy, Inc. (Doubleday, 2024), Twilight of Democracy (Doubleday, 2020), Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (Penguin and Doubleday, 2017), Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956 (Doubleday, 2012), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag: A History (Doubleday, 2003). Anne Applebaum was in conversation with CDE executive director, Ann Bernstein, to discuss the current geopolitical situation and related topics.