The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy by Holmes, Stephen
The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy by Holmes, Stephen

The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy

A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals....
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Author: Stephen Holmes
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The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy by Holmes, Stephen

The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy

$55.62
The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy by Holmes, Stephen

The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy

$55.62
Author: Stephen Holmes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectuals.

Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?

In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West.

In this brilliant work of political history, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of Communism turned out to be only the beginning of the age of the autocrat. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized.

Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and Orba n's Hungary into models for the United States.

Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light That Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of the fall of the Western ideal.

Author: Stephen Holmes, Ivan Krastev
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 01/07/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781643133690


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 12/02/2019

About the Author
Stephen Holmes is a Professor at the NYU School of Law and the author of many books, including The Beginning of Politics. He lives in Manhattan.

Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, a contributing writer for the international New York Times, and, most recently, the author of the acclaimed After Europe.
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