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Restoring Democracy in an Age of Despots and Demagogues

Jonathan Manthorpe

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Description:From the bestselling author of Claws of the Panda, Restoring Democracy is a thoughtful account of how we can save democracies from the despots, populists, and trolls that beset them. The book argues that democracy is more resilient than it appears, and is capable of overcoming the attacks from within and without that have sapped its vigour since the end of the Cold War.We begin with a description of the events of 1989, one of the seminal years in modern history. This saw the end of the Cold War, and the apparent conclusive victory of democracy and its civic values.But the view of these changes as a triumph of democracy — as summed up in Francis Fukuyama’s essay “The End of History” — was short lived. Russia, shorn of its soviet empire, and the Chinese Communist Party, re-examining its survival after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, began devising ways to counter-attack against the West’s triumphalism with considerable success. Meanwhile, democracies have allowed internal pressures and contradictions to threaten their own survival. Abandoned industrial workers are turning to the easy answers shouted by populists. Immigrants, refugees, and the reformist fixations of isolated liberal elites have provided ammunition for would-be despots.But the tools for democratic revival are at hand and Restoring Democracy sets out the key dangers and how they can be overcome.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Restoring Democracy in an Age of Despots and Demagogues. To get started finding Restoring Democracy in an Age of Despots and Demagogues, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 296

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Cormorant Books

Release: 2020

ISBN: 1770865829

Description: From the bestselling author of Claws of the Panda, Restoring Democracy is a thoughtful account of how we can save democracies from the despots, populists, and trolls that beset them. The book argues that democracy is more resilient than it appears, and is capable of overcoming the attacks from within and without that have sapped its vigour since the end of the Cold War.We begin with a description of the events of 1989, one of the seminal years in modern history. This saw the end of the Cold War, and the apparent conclusive victory of democracy and its civic values.But the view of these changes as a triumph of democracy — as summed up in Francis Fukuyama’s essay “The End of History” — was short lived. Russia, shorn of its soviet empire, and the Chinese Communist Party, re-examining its survival after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, began devising ways to counter-attack against the West’s triumphalism with considerable success. Meanwhile, democracies have allowed internal pressures and contradictions to threaten their own survival. Abandoned industrial workers are turning to the easy answers shouted by populists. Immigrants, refugees, and the reformist fixations of isolated liberal elites have provided ammunition for would-be despots.But the tools for democratic revival are at hand and Restoring Democracy sets out the key dangers and how they can be overcome.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Restoring Democracy in an Age of Despots and Demagogues. To get started finding Restoring Democracy in an Age of Despots and Demagogues, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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