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Charles Kaiser

Defeating the Dictators review: prescriptions for democratic health

Xi Jinping and Joe Biden meet on the sidelines of a G20 Summit in Bali.
Xi Jinping and Joe Biden meet on the sidelines of a G20 Summit in Bali. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Charles Dunst’s “aspirational” book about how democracies can do a better job of competing with autocracies is bursting with statistics and lots of common sense.

The statistics are there to convince us that many autocracies spend much more sensibly than the world’s richest democracies do. A few examples:

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