ILL WINDS by Larry Diamond is a text largely about the dangers of nationalism which Diamond has subtitled "Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency." Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, notes that "we have seen 12 consecutive years of erosion in global levels of political rights and civil liberties." He cites numerous examples, from the Philippines to Turkey to Hungary and prompts Kirkus to review this text as "a good addition to the growing library on fighting authoritarianism." Commenting specifically on the United States, Diamond laments the "cynical politicians in both parties, calcified systems that don't deliver public goods and complacent citizens who cannot bestir themselves to vote." Outlining the ebb and flow of global democratization, a short excerpt with statistics from this thought-provoking text ("the problem is not just that democracies are declining; it is that autocracies are becoming steadily more repressive and aggressive") was recently published in The Wall Street Journal.

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