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September 21, 2023 Topic: Authoritarianism Region: Eurasia Tags: AuthoritarianismDemocracyRussiaChinaCold WarGreat Power Competition
Across much of the world, the ideas of a democratic liberal political order, of multilateral international collaboration, and of liberal free-market capitalism are now in retreat.
by Azeem Ibrahim Follow Azeem Ibrahim on TwitterL , nationalinterest.org
The world is in turmoil. Only thirty years after the fall of the USSR and the collapse of its proxy network in Eastern Europe, a land war is being fought in Europe between a democracy and a dictatorship.
When the Cold War ended, we could have scarcely imagined that in just three decades we would be where we are now. We know now that the collapse of the USSR in 1991 did not bring about “the end of history” as prophesied. Instead, it bred complacency among the leaders of the Western democracies, great complacency which has sowed the seeds for the current global anti-democratic reckoning.
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