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The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
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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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
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The Toronto Star, May 20, 2020