The Crisis of Democracy - In Conversation with Antonio Polito (Hardcover)

The way the 3rd Gulf War against Saddam Hussein started is but one of the events that has posed great question marks about the functioning of democracy in the West. Ralf Dahrendorf, one of Britain's leading thinkers, approaches the political entanglements of democracy from his unique position as a sociologist and emigrant from post-war Germany. In his view we have reached a potentially cataclysmic point of no return. Here he points at directions which will resolve the historical problems democracies - the Western-European ones in particular - are facing from Islam and America's renewed empire-building. His influential thoughts are eagerly followed in the UK and abroad.