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What Is at Stake Now - My Appeal for Peace and Freedom Cloth (Hardcover)
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What Is at Stake Now - My Appeal for Peace and Freedom Cloth (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R307
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Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk
again. The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty
with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and
a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established
political institutions and endangering hard-won liberties.
Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp relief
the fragility of the global order and the speed with which it can
slide into chaos. In view of this dangerous and unpredictable state
of affairs, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last great statesman of the 1989
revolution, has written this short book to warn us of the grave
risks we now face and to urge us all, political leaders and
citizens alike, to take action to address them. He focuses on the
big challenges of our time, such as the renewal of the arms race
and the growing risks of nuclear war, the new tension between
Russia and the West, the global environmental crisis, the global
threat of diseases and epidemics, the rise of populism and the
decline of democracy. He argues that self-serving policies and
narrow-minded politics aimed at the pursuit of national interests
are taking the place of political principles and overshadowing the
vision of a free and just world for all peoples. He offers his view
of where Russia is heading and he urges political leaders in the
West to recognize that re-establishing trust between Russia and the
West requires the courage of true leadership and a commitment to
genuine dialogue and understanding on both sides. Now more than
ever, the responses to the great challenges we face cannot be
purely national in character but must be based on a collaborative
effort in which political leaders put aside their differences and
work together to advance the human security of all.
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