How much of the global democracy crisis and the rise of authoritarian populism was predictable? Was it path-dependent? (Chauncey Devega)
I think globalization made it inevitable. Globalization, rather than unite the world has split societies asunder: creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.
-Robert Kaplan in Salon.com
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