Shadi Hamid's latest for The Atlantic examines "What Democracies Can Learn From Malaysia"
Shadi Hamid explores the idea that "the real promise of the system is simply the power to remove leaders."
❝ What is democracy for? This might seem like an obvious question. Yet disagreements over democracy’s ends are multiplying in the West, including in the oldest, most advanced democracies. Those disagreements include the question of whether democracy is an end unto itself or a means to something greater. [TheAtlantic.com]
| SHADI HAMID is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of several books, including Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World. Watch him discuss his book Islamic Exceptionalism below, and learn more about booking Shadi for your next event today. |
