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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: light that failed
    sub title: why the West is losing the fight for democracy
  name:
    name part: Krastev, Ivan
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Holmes, Stephen
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 246 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 Orbán'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.
  table of contents: Imitation and its discontents -- The copycat mind -- Imitation as retaliation -- Imitation as dispossession -- The closing of an age.
  note: Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Liberalism
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: World politics
    temporal: 1989-
  subject:
    topic: Political psychology
  classification: JC574 .K74 2019
  classification: 320.51
  identifier: 9781643133690
  identifier: 1643133691
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    record change date: 20200729072837.0
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