History • Politics

History's Fools : The Pursuit of Idealism and the Revenge of Politics

David Martin Jones

A tale of Western liberal hubris and our failure to escape from history.

The end of the Cold War announced a new world order. Liberal democracy prevailed, ideological conflict abated, and world politics set off for the promised land of a secular, cosmopolitan, market-friendly end of history. Or so it seemed. Thirty years later, this unipolar worldview— premised on shared values, open markets, open borders and abstract social justice—lies in tatters. What happened?

Maße

22 x 14,5 cm

Seitenzahl

404

Verlag

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020.

Latein Schrift. Fester Einband mit Schutzumschlag.

Sprache: Englisch.

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