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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 FOREIGNAFFAIRS.COM Autocracy Now HOW A GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM DIES  /   • 
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September/October 2019 COVER: THE HEADS OF STATE Volume 98, Number 5 AUTOCRACY NOW Putin the Great 10 Russia’s Imperial Impostor ...

September/October 2019 ON FOREIGNAFFAIRS.COM Yuen Yuen Ang on the struggle over the Belt and Road Initiative. Ivan Briscoe on th ...

September/October 2019 “Foreign Aairs... will tolerate wide di‹erences of opinion. Its articles will not represent any consensu ...

September/October 2019 · Volume 98, Number 5 Published by the Council on Foreign Relations ‰Š‹ŒŽ‘ ’Ž“Œ Editor, Peter G. Peterson ...

SUSAN GLASSER wanted to be a journalist from the age o ten, when she helped her parents distribute copies o a newspaper they f ...

AUTOCRACY NOW populist authoritarian, he has become the country’s longest-serving and most signicant leader since Ataturk. Rodr ...

ILLUSTRATION BY THE HEADS OF STATE AUTOCRACY NOW The leading ›gures on the world stage today practice a brutal, smashmouth polit ...

10 μ¢œ¤ž³£ ¬μ쬞œ˜ SUSAN B. GLASSER is a sta writer for The New Yorker and former Moscow co-bureau chief for The Washington Pos ...

Putin the Great September/October 2019 11 ...

Susan B. Glasser 12 μ¢œ¤ž³£ ¬μ쬞œ˜ “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality” is a closer philosophical ¿t with today’s Putinism than ...

Putin the Great September/October 2019 13 constitutional niceties, he was greeted with massive demonstrations. These shook Putin ...

Susan B. Glasser 14 μ¢œ¤ž³£ ¬μ쬞œ˜ presidential administration to head o‘ the post-Soviet successor to the ¶³š, known as the Fe ...

Putin the Great September/October 2019 15 approaching it, but the absence o‘ something—namely, the upheaval that preceded him. “ ...

Susan B. Glasser 16 μ¢œ¤ž³£ ¬μ쬞œ˜ outlier. Russia was a declining power, “Upper Volta with nukes,” as critics used to call the ...

18 μ¢œ¤ž³£ ¬μ쬞œ˜ RICHARD McGREGOR is a Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute and the author of Xi Jinping: The Backlash (Penguin ...

Party Man September/October 2019 19 ...

Richard McGregor 20 μ¢œ¤ž³£ ¬μ쬞œ˜ Xi has always been a true believer in the party’s right to rule China. For him, the centrali ...

21 companies, including the e-commerce giant Alibaba and the automaker Geely. When Xi became China’s paramount leader, in 2012, ...

Richard McGregor 22 μ¢œ¤ž³£ ¬μ쬞œ˜ PERPETUAL PARANOIA Xi’s metamorphosis stemmed from several factors. The maneuvering o‘ two o ...