It was in the aftermath of the Cold War, at the beginning of the 1990s: the world was believed to be called upon to convert to liberal democracy, which would allow it to become permanently peaceful, by drying up the passions pushing men to be divided among themselves. , or at least by locking them into the private domain. The Aristotelian question of the political regime would dissolve into universal prosperity and the empire of law. The promoters of this theory were convinced: it was this model that had triumphed over the two totalitarianisms of the twentieth century. Through him, modernity would fulfill its promises. Francis Fukuyama, in a famous book, had even made a prophecy of it when he saw it as
the end of the story.
This philosophy of happy days now seems decayed.
A report from International Idea, a Stockholm-based organization whose mission is to assess the good democratic health of the planet, was alarming earlier this week.
Democracy would be in decline,
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