Rare and precious are the authors to admit that they could be mistaken.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno belongs to this little club.
The former diplomat publishes
The First XXIst Century.
From globalization to the fragmentation of the world
(Flammarion), a Western confession coupled with a Chinese dream.
First of all, a confession: in 1989, the West experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as the victory of liberal democracy, while it marked the bankruptcy of a Soviet system at the end of its rope.
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I myself made this error in judgment in the 1990s,”
wrote the former UN Deputy Secretary General, in charge of peacekeeping operations from 2000 to 2008.
The duel of the century
On the fragile foundations of this illusion, the democratization of the world has become the alpha and omega of international politics.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno reverses this logic in which he once believed:
“The question of democracy is secondary: for democracy to be possible, there must be a society.
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