Anthony Pagden teaches history and political science at UCLA. He is the author of The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (Cambridge University Press, 1987), The Uncertainties of Empire: Essays in Iberian and Ibero-American Intellectual History (Ashgate, 1994), European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism (Yale University Press, 1994), and Peoples and Empires (Random House, 2001). He is the editor of Facing Each Other:The World’s Perception of Europe and Europe’s Perception of the World (Ashgate, 2000) and The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Recent articles

The institutions of liberal democracy may have to change for its values to be sustained, writes Anthony Pagden.