A Democratic View of Geopolitics

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In the map of the world we have long known, the US and Western powers stand at one pole, with Russia and China at the other: ideological, institutional, intentional.

This discussion, based on the book The De-democratisation Project, argues that seismic shifts in the world, the genocide in Gaza, Russia’s war on Ukraine, the US-Israel war on Iran, cannot be understood through the outmoded West-versus-Rest lens. The true crisis of our time, it suggests, is a global attempt to undo the hard-won consensus that democracy and human rights are universal. The conversation imagines…