Ian Shapiro - After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World ...with TRE's Giles Brown

The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in an era of tremendous political optimism: communism was receding and democracy was on the march in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and much of Asia. Even surviving communist regimes were adopting capitalism, and the stagflation of the 1970s and industrial strife of the1980s were in the rearview mirror.

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