In a recent issue of the London Review of Books, James Meek assesses a book about how civil wars start by international relations professor Barbara F. Walter. Her subject, as Meek describes it, is "nativist traditionalism vs. liberal idealism" and how the tensions between these political tendencies becomes most acute when democracies slide into "anocracy": a democracy with authoritarian characteristics, riven by the emergence of "superfactions" led by reactionary "ethic entrepreneurs" who promise to forestall societal change. Meek quotes this pointed passage from Walter's book:
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In a recent issue of the London Review of Books, James Meek assesses a book about how civil wars start by international relations professor Barbara F. Walter. Her subject, as Meek describes it, is "nativist traditionalism vs. liberal idealism" and how the tensions between these political tendencies becomes most acute when democracies slide into "anocracy": a democracy with authoritarian characteristics, riven by the emergence of "superfactions" led by reactionary "ethic entrepreneurs" who promise to forestall societal change. Meek quotes this pointed passage from Walter's book: