The Importance of Humility and Partnership in Engaging Audiences Outside of Our Advanced Industrial Democracies

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The West's hubris led to some truly terrible mistakes, he says. We have to admit to ourselves that these were profound errors,. And we're living with the consequences of that. So tone, humility, partnership are important starting points for a new world," writes Obama. "We all would like self determination and our rulers to be accountable"

In this second episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to Larry Diamond, a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies and a senior fellow in global democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Drawing on arguments in Martin’s latest book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, they discuss what’s behind a deepening global ‘democratic recession’.

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This episode is presented by Martin Wolf. The producer is Laurence Knight. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Breen Turner. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.

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