This summer, we bring you the Voternomics Summer Reading List. First up, a conversation between Stephanie Flanders and author and journalist Anne Applebaum about her latest book Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run The World.

She says a network of dictators from China to Venezuela could be the beneficiaries of a welcoming White House should Donald Trump win the US election come November and warns that the self-proclaimed dealmaker and convicted felon’s foreign policy may be more personal and even less predictable in a second term.

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Next up on the Summer Reading List, Fareed Zakaria, host of the CNN program GPS, discusses his new book, Age of Revolutions.

Zakaria contends the world is experiencing a backlash to globalization similar to one in the 1920s. This dynamic is made all the more stark by Trump’s transformation of the Republican Party into an anti-immigrant, trade-skeptic entity, he says.

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On this week’s episode of In the City, Catherine Ashton, the former high representative for European Union foreign policy and EU Commission first vice president, joins to discuss the international challenges faced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government and the importance of Britain’s determination to be more present on the global stage.

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