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Empire of democracy, the remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017, Simon Reid-Henry

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Empire of democracy

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Simon Reid-Henry

the remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017

Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, the Western democracies were forced to undergo a profound transformation. Against what some saw as a full-scale "crisis of democracy," a new political-economic order was devised, and the postwar social contract was torn up and written anew. In this epic narrative of the events that have shaped the times, Simon Reid-Henry shows how liberal democracy, and western history with it, was profoundly reimagined when the postwar Golden Age ended. As the institutions of liberal rule were reinvented, a new generation of politicians emerged: Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterrand, and Kohl. The late twentieth-century heyday they oversaw carried the Western democracies triumphantly to victory in the Cold War and into the economic boom of the 1990s. Equally, it led them into the fiasco of Iraq, to the high drama of the financial crisis in 2007/8, and ultimately to the anti-liberal surge of our own times

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