Book The Return of History and the End of Dreams Author Robert Kagan Page count 115 The book I chose to read is about never ending struggle between democracy and autocracy. Author argues that the most important and hazardous mistake of the new century was to perceive that liberal ideas will naturally win the battle against autocratic ideologies. This conclusion was made by the western politicians and the scientists of the social sciences basing on the monitoring of the results of World War II and The Cold war, where the liberal ideas and political alliances...
of the realist defending and giving proposals for the further development and victory of liberal values was the last challenge for me. It made me think more about how the ideas and believes work and how the person of one ideology can serve to the state inspired by the other ideology and why it could be so. I would definitely recommend this book to be read during the course of Comparative Politics as it is about the majority of actors listed in the course syllabus and helps to understand more their ties between each other, their international and domestic policies.