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02359aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 DB1BA2DA369B11EAA59B8B3C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200114010144 008 190614t20192019nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1643133691 020 $a 9781643133690 035 $a (OCoLC)1104419950 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d ORX $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 320.51 $2 23 100 1 $a Krastev, Ivan, $d 1965- $e author. 245 14 $a The light that failed : $b why the West is losing the fight for democracy / $c Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes. 246 3 $a Why the West is losing the fight for democracy 264 1 $a New York ; $b Pegasus Books, $c 2019. 300 $a 246 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 0 $a 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 heartland of the West. In this brilliant work of political psychology, Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. Reckoning with the history of the last thirty years, they show that the most powerful force behind the wave of populist xenophobia that began in Eastern Europe stems from resentment at the post-1989 imperative to become Westernized. Through this prism, the Trump revolution represents an ironic fulfillment of the promise that the nations exiting from communist rule would come to resemble the United States. In a strange twist, Trump has elevated Putin's Russia and OrbaÌn's Hungary into models for the United States. Written by two pre-eminent intellectuals bridging the East/West divide, The Light that Failed is a landmark book that sheds light on the extraordinary history of our Age of Imitation. 650 0 $a Liberalism. 650 0 $a Democracy. 650 0 $a World politics $y 1989- 650 0 $a Political psychology. 700 1 $a Holmes, Stephen, $d 1948- $e author. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317031450.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200114013944.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB1BA2DA369B11EAA59B8B3C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search