Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency by Diamond, Larry
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency by Diamond, Larry

Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

*Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award* From America's leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate...
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Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency by Diamond, Larry

Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

$83.99 $43.89
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency by Diamond, Larry

Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

$83.99 $43.89
Author: Larry Diamond
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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."

Author: Larry Diamond
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780525560647

About the Author
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also a professor by courtesy of political science and sociology at Stanford University and a past director of its Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. In 2004, Diamond served in Baghdad as a senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He is the author of numerous books, including The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World, the editor of coeditor of fifty books, and a counding founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy.
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