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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm with my colleague Gregory Copley, whose new book is about the transition

that we're witnessing right now from Republic to what comes next. The noble state is the book

governance options in an ignoble era. Autocracy. We can see it in smaller states easier than in the large states, but it's increasingly

now the option after republicanism.

In democratic states, so-called, and in authoritarian states, undemocratic states at

the same time.

Certainly Russia and China evidence large states that are smoothly moved into autocracy.

Gregory and I have talked recently about what's happening in West Africa

with three states that were democratic and are now autocracy.

Gregory, one of the things Republican states attempt to do when they're feeling this push

of autocracy is suppression. Does that work? Does that hold off the inevitable?

It holds it off only temporarily because what happens is that once you open the

the chest, the war chest and people see there's a whole world out there and opportunities,

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