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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a320.51 _bKRA/LI
100			_aKrastev,Ivan
245			_aLIGHT THAT FAILED : Reckoning
250			_a1
260			_aUK _bAllen Lane _c2019/01/01
300			_g247
500			_aWhy 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.
505			_a Imitation and its discontents -- The copycat mind -- Imitation as retaliation -- Imitation as dispossession -- The closing of an age.
650			_aPolitical psychology
650			_aWorld politics
650			_aPolitical Ideologies
650			_aLiberalism
700			_aHolmes,Stephen
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