After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World
大崩落：從歷史的終結到民主的危機──政治人物如何一步步摧毀我們的世界
內容介紹
★源自耶魯大學熱門課程〈現今世界的權力與政治〉(Power and Politics in Today’s World)，YouTube 點擊突破七百萬！
★重量級政治學者伊恩．夏皮羅（Ian Shapiro）對冷戰結束以來全球政治右傾浪潮的犀利剖析！
民主的幻夢崩落，右傾浪潮席捲全球？
從柏林圍牆到新冷戰：錯誤抉擇如何改寫世界格局?
1989年柏林圍牆的倒塌，象徵著政治樂觀時代的來臨：共產主義逐漸退潮，民主在東歐、拉丁美洲以及亞洲多地昂首前行。即便是倖存的共產政權，也紛紛擁抱資本主義，一切榮景使70年代的停滯性通膨與80年代的工業衝突，似乎都已成為歷史餘影。
然而四十年後，當初的歡欣卻化為怨懟與悲觀──英國脫歐、唐納．川普的民粹浪潮兩度將他送進白宮，右翼政黨在歐洲及世界各地的崛起，更達到自30年代以來未曾見過的規模。究竟是甚麼力量推動了這場變局？
在《大崩落》（After the Fall）一書中，夏皮羅教授深入檢視冷戰以來塑造世界的經濟、社會與政治動態，進而以獨特視角來找尋今日困境的解方。他提醒我們1989 年「歷史的終結」的構想──世界邁入相對和平穩定的時代並非全然幻想，且當前世界局勢的危機也非命中注定，而是源自政治人物一次又一次的錯誤抉擇。
無論是北約的走向、反恐戰爭、人道干預，或是經濟治理，多項決策不僅削弱了人們對政治制度的信任，更推升了反體制政黨與候選人的聲勢，最終催生出一場與過去同樣危險的「新冷戰」。然而，那些政治上的「未擇之道」如果在當時被採納，現今的世界局勢又將如何不同呢？
作者介紹
伊恩．夏皮羅（Ian Shapiro），出生於南非，為耶魯大學法學與政治學博士，自1984年起即在耶魯大學任教，現為耶魯大學政治學與全球事務斯特林講座教授。目前擔任美國人文與科學院（American Academy of Arts and Sciences）院士、美國哲學學會（the American Philosophical Society）院士，與美國外交關係協會（the Council on Foreign Relations）成員。他曾任卡內基基金會（the Carnegie Corporation）、古根漢基金（the Guggenheim Foundation）會及行為科學高等研究中心（the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences）的會員，亦曾在開普敦大學（the University of Cape Town）、東京慶應大學（Keio University）及牛津大學納菲爾學院（Nuffield College, Oxford）擔任訪問學者。
夏皮羅教授著作等身，其對民主、正義以及社會研究方法有廣泛且具影響力的論述，近年出版包括Politics Against Domination(2018年)，以及擔任共同作者的The Wolf at the Door(2021年)、Responsible Parties(2018年)等。現居於美國康乃狄克州紐哈芬市（New Haven, Connecticut）
書評
“Shapiro’s sharp examination shows how voters around the world ended up disillusioned, a disenchantment he direly calls ‘the stuff of which dictatorships are made.’ It’s a stark wake-up call.”―Publishers Weekly
“A searing indictment of post-Cold War errors ... An incisive analysis of Western policies that foreshadowed the rise of America Firstism.”―Kirkus Reviews
“Those struggling to understand how this country and the world at large could fall from the crowning heights of 1989, a moment of ascendant prosperity under democratic capitalism, to the contemporary morass, corruption, and authoritarianism of new right populism need look no farther than Ian Shapiro’s After The Fall. Shapiro skillfully documents the lost opportunities, bad choices, and failures of commission and omission as the post-Cold War edifice came under the growing strains of the economically dispossessed, political entrepreneurs skilled at mobilizing discontent and voters increasingly willing to turn to autocratic leaders.”―Thomas Edsall, columnist, New York Times
“A compelling analysis—profoundly challenging to so many Western assumptions—with an admirable blend of realism, imagination, unflinching criticism, and generosity—effortlessly in command of geopolitics—showing how often confusion, conventional wisdoms, group-think, and lack of imagination squandered the opportunities of the 90s and accelerated the collapse of the global order.”―Rory Stewart, former Member of Parliament and author of The Places in Between
“Ian Shapiro’s powerful and arresting book explains just how and why the politics of Europe and North America have come to be so confused, so acrimonious, and so dangerous over the last few decades. Its focus is on a small number of fateful decisions, any of which could readily have been avoided. Since the damage they have inflicted now threatens everyone and those who have lost from it so drastically outnumber those who have gained, it shows something surprising, of immense political importance and the greatest urgency.”―John Dunn, University of Cambridge
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