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'Like Orwell, Koestler, Marshall McLuhan, Primo Levy and rim Flannery, John Ralston Saul tells US unsparingly how tremendously we get things wrong ... [Saul] has the most wide-ranging mind and [is] one of the greatest organizing and focusing teachers we have.'
- Sydney Morning Herald

Proponents of qlobalism predicted that nation states were heading toward irrelevance: that economics. not politics or arms, would determine the course of human events; that growth in international trade would foster prosperous markets that would, in turn abolish poverty and change dictatorships into democracies.

The successes of globalization include the astonishing growth in world trade and the unexpected "se of India and China, which seem slated to become twenty-first-century superpowers. But its collapse has Left us with a chaotic vacuum: the United States appears determined to ignore his international critics; in Europe. Problems such as racism. terrorism and renewed internal nationalism call for uniquely European solutions born out of local experiences and needs, Elsewhere, the world looks for answers to African debt. the AIDS epidemic, the return of fundamentalism and terrorism. all of which perversely refuse to disappear despite the theoretical rise in global prosperity.

Insightful and prophetic, The Collapse of Globalism is destined to take its place as one of the seminal books of our time.