Summary of Ben Rhodes's After the Fall

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Get the Summary of Ben Rhodes's After the Fall in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they had worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in America, Rhodes decided to look outward. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, activists, and dissidents confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that was tearing America apart. Along the way, a Russian opposition leader he spoke with was poisoned, the Hong Kong protesters he came to know saw their movement snuffed out, and America itself reached the precipice of losing democracy before giving itself a second chance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638155966

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Summary of Ben Rhodes’s After the Fall

Contents

Overview

Authoritarianism

Viktor Orban and Sandor Lederer

Orban as Prime Minister

Black Cube

Katalin Cseh and Momentum

Nationalism

The Story of Zhanna Nemtsova

Contrasting Speeches

Alexey Navalny

The Annexation of Crimea

The Challenger

Russia’s Transformation

China

The Outlier

China’s Influence

Hong Kong

The Fate of Hong Kong

Politics Today

Rhodes’s Background

America’s Response to 9/11

Conspiracy Theories

Hope

Author’s Style

Author’s Perspective

Overview

America’s way of doing things, from global capitalism to liberal democracy, has fallen out of fashion.

After the Fall (2021) by Ben Rhodes discusses the unprecedented failure of the United States to capitalize as the world’s leading force following the Cold War. Today, countries such as Hungary and Russia are dispelling the Western outlook on free business and politics and instead committing to outright authoritarianism. Dictators including Vladamir Putin, Victor Orban, and Xi Jinping use wide-scale corruption to consolidate power, extreme nationalism to create a strong national identity built on persecuting others, and technology to surveille and control their citizens.

Because America failed to provide a better example of capitalism