The End of the World #7: Interview with Yascha Mounk

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For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Yascha Mounk, a lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the host of The Good Fight podcast to talk about the sustainability of democracy in the liberal international order. 

Bookshelf:
Yascha Mounk, The People Versus Democracy
Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, The Democratic Disconnect, available here
Edward Luce, The Retreat of Liberalism
Ivan Krastev, After Europe
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

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