It also makes azar gat 's new book on the relationship between democracy and political and economic success particularly timely .
阿泽尔盖特（azargat）有关民主与政治和经济成就之间关系的新书也因此显得特别恰逢其时。
Writing in a recent edition of foreign affairs , azar gat , an israeli academic , suggests that if western democracies run into economic problems , a " successful non-democratic second world could then be regarded by many as an attractive alternative to liberal democracy . "
His latest work is a collection of themed essays , mainly published elsewhere , which makes it a less interesting read than if it had been a single monograph . Nonetheless , gat 's central theme is thought-provoking and disturbing .
