The New Totalitarian Temptation
โ Scribed by Huizinga, Todd
- Book ID
- 110489250
- Publisher
- Encounter Books
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 511 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781594037900
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โฆ Synopsis
What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe's migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established political parties declining across the continent while protest parties rise? All this is part of the whirlwind that EU elites are reaping from their efforts to create a unified Europe without meaningful accountability to average voters.
The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe is a must-read if you want to understand how the European Union got to this point and what the European project fundamentally is. This is the first book to identify the essence of the EU in a utopian vision of a supranationally governed world, an aspiration to achieve universal peace through a global legal order.
The ambitions of the global governancers are unlimited. They seek to transform not just the...
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