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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita: Why China, Russia and Iran Aren't Democracies
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita: Why China, Russia and Iran Aren't Democracies

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, the author of The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is the Julius Silver Professor of Politics at New York University and was director of its Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy from 2006-2016. He is the author of twenty-three books, including The Dictator’s Handbook.

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