Though standards were often low, and higher education was withheld from bourgeois and dissident students, these rights were as self-evident in the East as free speech was in the West. ... A rift is opening up between ‘liberal’ in the sense of democratic, and ‘neoliberal’ in the..…
While scholars have for some time emphasized the absence of any confrontation with Nazi under German Democratic Republic we should also in mind the economic fallout from the unification of East and West Germany. ..…
'These actions, in conjunction with China's support for likeminded, illiberal partners and growing advocacy for its authoritarian model, have the potential to draw fragile democracies into China's orbit and away from the United States and the democratic West.' . . ..…
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