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Ill Winds
- Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
- ナレーター： Larry Diamond
- 再生時間： 13 時間 12 分
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Ill Winds
あらすじ・解説
Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award
From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order - and the very value of liberty.
Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart.
Ill Winds' core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of democratic ideals relies on US global leadership. If we do not reclaim our traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's authoritarian swell could become a tsunami, providing an opening for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and their admirers to turn the 21st century into a dark time of despotism.
We are at a hinge in history, between a new era of tyranny and an age of democratic renewal. Free governments can defend their values; free citizens can exercise their rights. We can make the internet safe for liberal democracy, exploit the soft, kleptocratic underbelly of dictatorships, and revive America's degraded democracy. Ill Winds offers concrete, deeply informed suggestions to fight polarization, reduce the influence of money in politics, and make every vote count.
In 2019, freedom's last line of defense still remains "We the people".
批評家のレビュー
"[Diamond] has spent 40 years circumnavigating the globe promoting democracy in Nigeria, Venezuela and some 70 other countries. Yet today he is aghast.... In his impassioned book Ill Winds, he proves a stalwart, persuasive champion for democracy at a moment when its reputation has been fouled by Britain mauling itself with Brexit and by the United States electing someone as morally, intellectually and literally bankrupt as Donald Trump.” (Gary J. Bass, New York Times Book Review)
“The question he poses is how to prevent the world’s democratic recession from turning into outright depression.... Diamond’s solution is for the US to launch a concerted - though not warlike - promotion of global democracy. His case is well made.” (Financial Times)
“Diamond succeeds in making a compelling case that the global assault on democracy is the single most important trend driving global events today.... Diamond’s entire book should be read as a clarion call that we have reached a critical moment where the price of inaction will render democratic government not only ineffective, but increasingly defenseless.” (Foreign Policy)