Rethinking open society: new adversaries and new opportunities

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The key values of the Open Society - freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy and respect for knowledge - are increasingly under threat in today's world. As an effort to uphold those values, this volume brings together some of the key political, social and economic thinkers of our time to re-examine the Open Society closely in terms of its history, its achievements and failures, and its future prospects. Based on the lecture series Rethinking Open Society, which took place between 2017 and 2018 a…

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Full title :Rethinking open society : new adversaries and new opportunities / edited by Michael Ignatieff, Stefan Roch.

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Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Central European University Press
Place of Publication:Budapest
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:vii pages, 355 pages : : illustration, charts (black and white) ; : 23 cm

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ISBN:9633862701, 9789633862704
oclc:on1039473183
LC Classification:JC423
Dewey Decimal:323

I. The Open society ideal: for and against -- II. Open society in practice: democreacy, rule of law, free speech and secularism -- III. Open society in 21st Century geopolitics -- IV. Open society's new enemies: the authoritarian competitors -- V. From transition to backsliding: did open societies fail?

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89.35 democracy democracy Demokratie Droits de l'homme (Droit international) Europa Europe Europe -- Politics and government -- 19… Europe -- Politique et gouvernement -- … Human rights Meinungsfreiheit Menschenrecht Offene Gesellschaft Politics and government Politische Kultur Politischer Wandel Populism Populisme Populismus Since 1989