
The Politics Of Nostalgia
Western democracies are facing a new threat: pessimism. Recent surveys reveal that 65 percent of Europeans and North Americans think the world is getting worse
Author profile
Diego Rubio is a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Professor of Applied History and Global Governance at the IE School of International Relations. He has worked as Policy Advisor to the United Nations and the Ibero-American General Secretariat (Segib).

Western democracies are facing a new threat: pessimism. Recent surveys reveal that 65 percent of Europeans and North Americans think the world is getting worse