Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency

2020
Author(s)
Larry Diamond
Publisher
PENGUIN PRESS
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
From America's leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising wave of 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 retreat 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.
 
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University.