Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics. She is the author of several books, including Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, and Iron Curtain, which won the 2013 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature.
The British party system is being fundamentally reshaped by the consequences of the British decision to leave the EU, which also threatens to reduce Britain’s influence on the rest of the world.
In recent years, as leading authoritarian countries such as China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela have become emboldened within the global arena, challenging the liberal international political order, the advanced democracies have retreated rather than responding to this threat.