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SUMMARY:Democracy and its Discontents - Professor John Shattuck\, Central 
 European University
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CONTACT:Clare Kitcat
DESCRIPTION:Democratic values are under siege in Eastern Europe a quarter 
 century after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  A series of political\, econom
 ic and social tidal waves threaten democratic structures built during the 
 post-Cold War transition period.  The financial and economic crises\,  ter
 rorism\, Russian aggression in Ukraine\, the flood of refugees and migrant
 s from the Middle East and North Africa\, and the consequent politics of f
 ear have combined to give rise to new forms of "illiberal democracy" in Hu
 ngary and Poland\, and nationalist parties and movements across Europe tha
 t oppose liberal democratic values.  An American who has lived for many ye
 ars in Budapest offers an assessment of these developments\, and a compari
 son with current political trends in the US.
LOCATION:Yusuf Hamied Theatre\, Christ's College
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