Our Own Worst Enemy - Nichols, Tom (Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs, Profe
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In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the result of economic changes or institutional failures. Rather, he argues that too many of us have succumbed to a toxic cocktail of growing narcissism and increasing expectations, all of which have paradoxically been fueled by affluence, peace, and a connected global culture. These citizens have been exploited by political entrepreneurs who encourage reinforcing cycles of perceived relative deprivation, political alienation,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the result of economic changes or institutional failures. Rather, he argues that too many of us have succumbed to a toxic cocktail of growing narcissism and increasing expectations, all of which have paradoxically been fueled by affluence, peace, and a connected global culture. These citizens have been exploited by political entrepreneurs who encourage reinforcing cycles of perceived relative deprivation, political alienation, unvirtuous political (and social) behavior, and who provide targets for subsequent bouts of unfocused rage.
Autorenporträt
Tom Nichols is Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, and a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of The Death of Expertise (Oxford 2017), No Use: Nuclear Weapons and US National Security (2013), and Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War (2008). He is also an instructor at the Harvard Extension School and an adjunct professor at the US Air Force School of Strategic Force Studies. He is a former aide in the US Senate and has been a Fellow of the International Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.