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Brian Klaas

Associate Professor of Global Politics, University College London

Brian Klaas is an associate professor in global politics at University College London, an affiliate researcher at the University of Oxford, and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. His books include Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (2024) and Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us (2021). He writes The Garden of Forking Paths Substack and created the Power Corrupts podcast.

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