How to Lose a Country is an impassioned warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep. Award winning journalist Ece Temelkuran, identifies the early-warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world, in order to define a global pattern, and arm the reader with the tools to root it out, proposing alternative answers to the pressing political questions of our time. Read it or be prepared to lose your country.