World Politics since 1989
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1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way?
Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides of global politics from the Cold War to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He tells a story of faltering momentum and squandered opportunities that explains how the West’s sources of strength were lost to rising consumerism, unbalanced trade, and half-hearted diplomatic engagement. All the while, other powers, like China and Russia, grew stronger. With his trademark verve, Holslag untangles the threads of this story to reveal that it was not so much the ambition of China, the cunning of Putin, or the greed of African strongmen that led the world into this dark place; it was the failure of the West to listen to its people, to show clear leadership, and reinvent itself, in spite of ample evidence that things were going awry.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (1 Sept. 2023), Polity |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 432 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1509546731 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1509546732 |
| Dimensions | 15.24 x 3.56 x 22.86 cm |
by Julie Thomas
If you are already convinced that all the world’s problem are the fault of western liberal democracy, then you have no need to read this book. If you have a few doubts there isn’t any point either because there is no attempt at building an agument to support his opinion. Everything and its opposite is criticised, often in the same sentence.
The USA and the EU manage to combine isolationism and indifference to the outside world with provocation and interference in other nation’s affairs.
by M. S. Hutchinson
Fascinating and extremely well written critique of the self-inflicted damage, and self- righteous behaviour, done by American and other Western politicians after the “fall of the Wall”. The complicity between rootless & immoral global finance and feckless & immoral Western political classes and their advisers in the giants of think tank and management consultancy industries is carefully laid bare.
After 40+ years plus of the Cold War the world deserved better but did not get it. A forensic analysis and exposition, if one were needed, of the corruptive power of untamed global finance and it’s parasitical behaviour inveigling into the corridors of, so called, democracies.