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Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How It Is Still Imperiled Hardback - 2009

by Azar Gat

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In the blink of an eye, liberal democracy's moment of triumph was darkened by new threats, challenges, and doubts. Rejecting the view that liberal democracy's twentieth-century victory was inevitable, distinguished student of war Azar Gat argues that it largely rested on contingent factors and was more doubtful than has been assumed. The world's liberal democracies, with the United States at the forefront, face new and baffling security threats, with the return of capitalist nondemocratic great powers-China and Russia-and the continued threat of unconventional terror.

The democratic peace, or near absence of war among themselves, is a unique feature of liberal democracies' foreign policy behavior. Arguing that this is merely one manifestation of much more sweeping and less recognized pacifist tendencies typical of liberal democracies, Gat offers a panoramic view of their distinctive way in conflict and war. His book provides a politically and strategically vital understanding of the peculiar strengths and vulnerabilities that liberal democracy brings to the formidable challenges ahead.

Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution

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  • Title Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How It Is Still Imperiled
  • Author Azar Gat
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 140
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham:
  • Publication date 2009-12
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781442201149 / 1442201142
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.6 x 0.9 in (23.47 x 16.76 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Democratization, Democracy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009036923
  • Dewey Decimal Code 321.8

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  • Choice, 09/01/2010, Page 0
  • Publisher's Weekly Annex, 12/07/2009, Page 0

About the author

Azar Gat is Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security at Tel Aviv University and the author of several books on war and military thought including War in Human Civilization (Oxford University Press), named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the best books of 2006.
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