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    The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
    Ivan Krastev
    Stephen Holmes
    Published by Allen Lane/Penguin Random House Canada
    This book, full of sparkling insight and subtle analysis, explains why liberal democracy failed to become a universal ideology despite its victory over communism. The authors show how Western triumphalism of the 1990s failed to take into account the distinctive history and culture of states that were seeking to imitate and embed democracy. Although the…
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    The Shortlist
    Jurors
    Janice Gross Stein
    Jury Chair (Toronto, CA)
    Jeffrey Simpson
    Ottawa, Canada
    Kishore Mahbubani
    Singapore
    Margaret MacMillan
    Toronto, Canada and Oxford, England
    Sir Lawrence Freedman
    London, England
    Cameron Abadi
    Berlin, Germany
    Press releases
    The Light That Failed: A Reckoning Wins 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize
    2020 Lionel Gelber Prize Shortlist Announced
    Janice Stein Chairs International Jury for the 30th Annual Awarding of the Lionel Gelber Prize
    Media coverage
    Why Putin’s blatant lies mocking the West are making the world more dangerous
    The Toronto Star, May 20, 2020
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