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From Putin's populism, the Trump administration and autocratic rulers in democracies the world over, it has both thrived and failed under identity politics, authoritarianism, social media and a weakened free press the world over.\n\nSince its inception following the post-Reformation wars, liberalism has come under attack from conservatives and progressives alike, and today is dismissed by many as an 'obsolete doctrine'. In this brilliant and concise exposition, Francis Fukuyama sets out the cases for and against its classical premises: observing the rule of law, independence of judges, means over ends, and most of all, tolerance.\n\nPithy, to the point, and ever pertinent, this is political dissection at its very best.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128069292210,"sku":"9781800810143","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800810143.jpg?v=1786027090"},{"product_id":"9781781259818","title":"Identity","description":"Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018\n\nIncreasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college campuses, and the return of open white supremacy to our politics. \n\nIn 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to 'the people', who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.\n\nIdentity is an urgent and necessary book: a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205021204658,"sku":"9781781259818","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781259818_abc858ba-2325-4f1c-bd7d-a7b7dc4afc82.jpg?v=1786025560"},{"product_id":"9781846682575","title":"The Origins of Political Order","description":"Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. 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The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205845385394,"sku":"9781846682575","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781846682575_21f8cc10-de16-4383-a2f8-d903dd0c1fc6.jpg?v=1786029761"},{"product_id":"9781846684371","title":"Political Order and Political Decay","description":"In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions.  Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal.\n\nThis is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged. \n\nIf we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent past as well as in the earliest systems of human government. Fukuyama argues that the key to successful government can be reduced to three key elements: a strong state, the rule of law and institutions of democratic accountability.\n\nThis magisterial account is required reading for anyone wishing to know more about mankind's greatest achievements.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205846925490,"sku":"9781846684371","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781846684371.jpg?v=1786028973"},{"product_id":"9780241991039","title":"The End of History and the Last Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. 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