Sir Vince Cable: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy

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Thomas talks to Sir Vince Cable about his new book and the challenges facing liberal democracy in a changing world.

In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas talks to Sir Vince Cable, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the UK, about his new book Eclipsing the West: China, India and the forging of a new world. Sir Vince discusses: Postcolonial state-building, development economics, and his formative experiences in Kenya Globalisation, financialisation, and the legacy of the 2008 financial crisis The rise of China and India as “superstates” in a new tripolar world Geo-economics, US–China rivalry, and the breakdown of the liberal international order Democracy versus authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal governance Ideology, nationalism, and the limits of rationality in geopolitics Multipolarity, global disorder, climate crisis, and the future of world order Join the Conflicted Community here: ⁠⁠https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm⁠⁠ Find Conflicted on X: ⁠⁠https://x.com/MHconflicted⁠⁠ And Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted⁠⁠ And Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/conflictedpod⁠⁠ And YouTube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sdlF1mY5t4⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ⁠⁠megaphone.fm/adchoices⁠⁠ Conflicted is a Message Heard production. Executive…

People in this episode

Host: Thomas

Guest: Sir Vince Cable

Topics covered

• liberal democracy
• globalisation
• financial crisis
• China and India
• geopolitics
• multipolarity
• climate crisis

Keywords

• liberal democracy
• Sir Vince Cable
• Eclipsing the West
• globalisation
• financial crisis
• China
• India
• geopolitics
• multipolarity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Liberal Democrats

Books & works: Eclipsing the West

Places: UK, Kenya, China, India, US

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