How to Lose a Country is an impassioned plea, a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully formed into government, they creep. Award winning author and journalist Ece Temelkuran, identifies the early warning signs of this phenomenon, sprouting up across the world from Eastern Europe to South American, in order to define a global pattern, and arm the reader with the tools to root it out. The seven warning signs of rising populism.