


trying to avoid the use of offensive and inflammatory rhetoric) has become synonyms with cowardliness and insincerity. And in the western world, being politically correct (i.e.

Either way, in the non-western world, authoritarianism is now often seen as an effective and efficient system of governance for purposes of attaining economic growth. Or perhaps it isn’t fatigue with the concepts as such as much as the overuse and misuse of the terms. Over last decade or so, working with governments and civil society all over the world, I have sensed a growing degree of fatigue with concepts associated with liberal democracy such as civil liberties, human rights, or participatory and inclusive political processes.
