Tag: Democratic deficit
Is America a ‘failing state’? How a superpower has been brought to the brink
Picture: AAP/EPA/Albert Halim
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a sense history had ended, and that the United States represented a supreme...
We live in a world of upheaval. So why aren’t today’s protests leading to revolutions?
Today’s protests are driven more by anger over social and
economic inequity than deep-seated grievances against a regime. Orlando Barria/EPA
We live in a...