The light that failed: why the west is losing the fight for democracy
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The Martens Centre is delighted to host Ivan Krastev and MEP Radosław Sikorski in a conversation on the alleged divisions between Eastern and Western member states. Based on the book The Light that Failed, Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev argue that the supposed end of history turned out to be only the beginning of an Age of Imitation. The Bulgarian author together with MEP Sikorski will try to answer the question why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?
In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liberalism itself, not only there but also back in the heartland of the West. What gave rise to the powerful wave of populist xenophobia?
Why did the post-1989 Westernization imperative fail? And what can be done to save the fundamental values on which the West is built?
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Welcome remarks:
Mikuláš Dzurinda
President, Martens Centre
Presentation:
Ivan Krastev
Co-author of The Light that Failed: Why the West is losing the Fight for Democracy?
Conversation:
Ivan Krastev
Co-author of The Light that Failed, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Bulgaria
Radosław Sikorski
MEP and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
Moderated by:
Roland Freudenstein
Policy Director, Martens Centre
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