The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

Shackelford: Making Autocracy Great Again

Sep 8, 2025

In her column for the Chicago Times, Lizzy Shackelford, Distinguished Lecturer with the Dickey Center at Dartmouth, explores the geo-political consequences of President Xi’s case for a Chinese-led alternative to the U.S. led world.

While Xi is convening nations in multilateral dialogue, Trump is punishing countries we had long called friends because they won’t submit to his personal will.

Elizabeth shackelford, distinguished lecturer at the dickey center at dartmouth

Read it here.

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