Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy

Title: Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy
Author: Natan Sharansky
Political Science: 1689408
ISBN: 9781586487034
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Political Science | Political Freedom
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Publisher Description: Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice? Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. Better to have hostile identities framed by democracy than democrats indifferent to identity.

In a vigorous insightful challenge to the left and right alike, Natan Sharansky, as he has proved repeatedly, is at the leading edge of the issues that frame our time.