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Thomas Cushman

Thomas Cushman is professor of sociology at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. His most recent book is (as editor) A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq (University of California Press, 2005).

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Democracy and its enemies: a response to Barnett & Hilton

Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton’s depiction of democracy is too indulgent of the Islamist threat and too in thrall to leftwing pieties to be convincing, says Thomas Cushman.

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