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

by Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643133691
• ISBN13: 9781643133690
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"