From one of the very most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, success, and peace.

At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, believed that democracy had triumphed politically forever. Yet almost thirty years later, the direction of history no more seems specific. A about Fascism: A Warning repressive and harmful force has started to re-emerge within the global stage-sweeping across European countries, parts of Asia, as well as the United States-that to Albright, appears very much like fascism.

Predicated on her personal experience developing up in Hungary in Hitler as well as the Communist regime that adopted World Battle II, aswell as knowledge gleaned from her distinguished diplomatic job and insights from colleagues around the globe, Albright paints a clear picture of how fascism flourishes and explains why it really is once again taking hold worldwide, identifying the factors contributing to its rise. Most of all, she makes clear what could happen if we neglect to act against rising fascist pushes today and in the near future, such as the potential for financial catastrophe, a lasting spike in terrorist activity, improved sectarian assault, a rash of large-scale humanitarian emergencies, massive human rights violations, a breakdown in multilateral cooperation, and nearly irreparable self-inflicted harm to America’s reputation and capacity to lead.

Albright also offers clear solutions, including adjusting to the ubiquity of social networking as well as the changing character of the place of work, and understanding common citizens’ universal desire for sources of constancy and morality in their lives. She contends that people must stimulate financial growth and thin the gap between your rich and poor, metropolitan and rural, people, and qualified and unskilled; function across edges to respond to transnational challenges; and ultimately recognize that democracy’s unique virtue is certainly its ability-through reason and open up debate-to discover remedies for its own shortcomings.