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"From America's leading scholar of democracy, the definitive exploration of today's dangerously rising wave of authoritarianism, from Asia to America--and a personal, passionate call to action that shows us how to restore U.S. democracy and global leadership... As Diamond has long chronicled, democracy expands and retreats in waves. From the 1970s into the 1990s, the "third wave" saw democracy spread through Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa and attempt to take root in the former Soviet empire. But since 2006, Diamond has tracked a global democratic recession. By 2016, illiberal rulers…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2020Penguin Publishing Group · 384 pages · 9780525560647
- Other · English · 2019Penguin Publishing Group · 368 pages · 9780525560623
New York Times reviewedDemocracyHistory, modern, 21st centuryPolitics and governmentForeign relations89.90 foreign policyHISTORY21st Century
