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The Threat of an Authoritarian Century
Across much of the world, the ideas of a democratic liberal political order, of multilateral international collaboration, and of liberal free-market capitalism are now in retreat.
The world is in turmoil. Only thirty years after the fall of the USSR and the collapse of its proxy network in Eastern Europe, a land war is being fought in Europe between a democracy and a dictatorship.
- Azeem Ibrahim
- The National Interest
When the Cold War ended, we could have scarcely imagined that in just three decades we would be where we are now.
We know now that the collapse of the USSR in 1991 did not bring about “the end of history” as…