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Populism has had a transformative impact on the global political landscape, but is it invigorating and restoring modern democratic politics, or is it destroying it? This landmark study explores this question from cross-continental perspectives, with contributions from leading scholars including Chantal Mouffe, Azmi Bishara and Hamid Dabashi, engaging in this lively, multiregional and multi-disciplinary debate. Featuring a broad conversation on the rising and fast changing impact of populism on world politics, this volume tackles one of the most pressing and stimulating political and philosophical questions of our time.

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This is an excellent and philosophically rich analysis of the contemporary phenomenon of populism. El-Affendi has expertly brought together leading intellectuals from different regions of the world to debate whether populism can potentially galvanize or will ultimately destroy democracy. This is timely volume as populism appears to grow ever greater global power and influence. * Roland Dannreuther, Professor, University of Westminster, UK * We live in the age of populism. What does this mean for the future of democratic politics? Could it rehabilitate the quest for a just society or is fascism the inevitable result? A diverse group of scholars interrogates this subject theoretically and comparatively. Bringing in non-Western perspectives enriches a debate that will shape global order for the foreseeable future. An essential read for any serious student of this topic * Nader Hashemi, Dr, Georgetown University, USA *

This is an excellent and philosophically rich analysis of the contemporary phenomenon of populism. El-Effendi has expertly brought together leading intellectuals from different regions of the world to debate whether populism can potentially galvanize or will ultimately destroy democracy. This is timely volume as populism appears to grow ever greater global power and influence. * Roland Dannreuther, Professor, University of Westminster, UK *

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Abdelwahab El-Affendi is President and Provost at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI). Prior to that he was Reader in Politics at the Centre for the Study of? ?Democracy at the University of Westminster (until 2015), Senior Research Associate at St Anthony’s College, of Oxford (1990), Visiting Fellow at CMI (Bergen 1995, and 2003), at Northwestern (2002), and at Cambridge (2010-2012). He delivered keynote speeches at universities in five continents, including 15 major US and UK universities. His publications include: Genocidal Nightmares: Narratives of Insecurity and the Logic of Mass Atrocities (2015); and After the Arab Revolutions: Decentring Democratic Transition Theory (2021), co-edited with K. Al Anani.

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