The Collapse of Globalism
Published on 4. January 2018
368 pages
978-1-84887-315-5 (ISBN)
Description
Globalization is dead. Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are on the retreat. The shining-eyed optimism of more open, more equal societies has given way to demagoguery and nationalism. As the problems of immigration, extremism and the economy cause the world's nations to rethink their relationships, John Ralston Saul's brilliantly insightful The Collapse of Globalism lights the way to where we go from here.
Reviews / Votes
Informative, engaging and, above all, bitingly critical... An eminently readable book. -- Martin Jacques * Guardian * This is the start of a new debate. -- Michael Maiello * Forbes * Saul's arguments make original reading. * James Harkin for the Independent * Elegantly written and deeply important... Saul has provided a vital analysis of why globalization was never inevitable and always destined to fail, and what will come in its place. -- Sebastian Bosher * Ecologist * Saul brings a great breadth of literary and cultural knowledge to his task... and there is much evidence to support Saul's contention that things are going badly wrong with our planet. -- Paul Kennedy * Sunday Times *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84887-315-5 (9781848873155)
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Person
John Ralston Saul's books have been published in more than twenty-five countries and a dozen languages. He has received a PhD from King's College, was President of the Canadian Centre of International PEN from 1990 to 1992 and was named by the Utne Reader as one of the '100 Visionaries of the World' in 1995. Appointed a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996, John Ralston Saul recently received the Pablo Neruda Medal.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue
- Part I: Context
- 1 A Serpent in Paradise
- 2 A Summary of the Promised Future
- 3 What They Said It Would Do
- 4 What Somebody Forgot to Mention
- 5 A Short History of Economics Becoming Religion
- Part II: The Rise
- 6 1971
- 7 The Vacuum
- 8 The King's Fool
- 9 Selected Romantic Enthusiasms
- 10 The Gathering Force
- 11 Crucifixion Economics
- Part III: The Plateau
- 12 Success
- 13 1991
- 14 The Ideology of Progress
- 15 1995
- Part IV: The Fall
- 16 A Negative Equilibrium
- 17 NGOs and God
- 18 A Chronology of Decline
- 19 A Chronology of Decline: The Malaysian Breakout
- 20 The End of Belief
- 21 India and China
- 22 New Zealand Flips Again
- Part V: and Where are we Going Now?
- 23 The New Vacuum: An Interregnum of Morbid Symptoms
- 24 The New Vacuum: Is the Nation-State Back?
- 25 Negative Nationalism
- 26 The Normalization of Irregular Warfare
- 27 Positive Nationalism
- Epilogue: The Return of Choice The Refusal of Choice
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
