the right to dominate

The Right to Dominate: How Old Ideas About Sovereignty Pose New Challenges for World Order, 2020, Roland Paris (Canadian political scientist) writes about Putin, Trump, Viktor Orbán, Xi Jinping who independently challenges international corporations and organisations … informational

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1. weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states
   key weaknesses at the core of seemingly strong authoritarian states Russia and China both have argued that liberal democracy is in long-term
   
2. new middle ages
   Umberto Eco’s essays “Living in the New Middle Ages” and “Dreaming of the Middle Ages” … decline of Westphalian sovereignty … replaced by global
   
3. confused dictatorships of prosperous liberal democracies
   over the years, we have seen huge setbacks … yet, liberal democracy has endured and come back repeatedly, because the alternatives are so bad …