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Ill Winds - Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency (Paperback)
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Ill Winds - Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency (Paperback)
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*Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award* From America's
leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action
against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world
order-and the very value of liberty Larry Diamond has made it his
life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past
and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world.
Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that
determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as
illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines,
and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and
bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat
from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart. Ill
Winds' core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of
democratic ideals relies on U.S. global leadership. If we do not
reclaim our traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's
authoritarian swell could become a tsunami, providing an opening
for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and their admirers to turn the
twenty-first century into a dark time of despotism. We are at a
hinge in history, between a new era of tyranny and an age of
democratic renewal. Free governments can defend their values; free
citizens can exercise their rights. We can make the internet safe
for liberal democracy, exploit the soft, kleptocratic underbelly of
dictatorships, and revive America's degraded democracy. Ill Winds
offers concrete, deeply informed suggestions to fight polarization,
reduce the influence of money in politics, and make every vote
count. In 2020, freedom's last line of defense still remains "We
the people."
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