Nick Bryant, Olesya Khromeychuk & Edward Wong: Democracy on the Brink

With democracy more precarious than ever, three internationally focussed authors talk to Esa Aldegheri about how we got here. Former BBC journalist Nick Bryant examines America’s internal political conflict in The Forever War; Olesya Khromeychuk’s The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister analyses the war and Ukrainian history through personal loss; and New York Times correspondent Edward Wong braids the story of modern China with family history in At the Edge of Empire.

Categories: Conflict and Resolution, Nonfiction

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