The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

non-fiction by फरीद ज़कारिया

Blurb

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is a book by Fareed Zakaria analyzing the variables that allow a liberal democracy to flourish and the pros and cons of the global focus on democracy as the building block of a more stable society rather than liberty. It was a best-seller in the United States and several other countries. It is being translated into 20 languages at last count. The Future of Freedom is published by W. W. Norton & Company Inc., "with a new afterword", "bibliographical references", and "index" in 2004.
Zakaria's thesis deals with the variables required for a stable and free democracy to be born. In the pursuit of this, his book begins with a historical overview of western democracy and its elements, arguing that not only can a liberal democracy form from a liberalizing autocracy, but that it is actually more likely to form and last that way than by trying to democratize the society first and liberalize it later.

First Published

2003

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