JUST RELEASED !
REISSUE OF THE COLLAPSE OF GLOBALISM
WITH A NEW, UPDATED CONCLUSION
John Ralston Saul is already explaining that almost all of the reactions to the crisis which officially began in 2008 have been little more than that - reactions to the status quo. Most of them have made the mistake of thinking that the crisis was provoked by a financial crisis. Saul says this is not the case, and the crisis is far broader and far more profound. He believes that the more we react to the financial crisis the more we will freeze ourselves into the old globalist system, which is already on its way out.
The Collapse of Globalism is going to be re-issued with a major new conclusion, first in Great Britain in June 2009 with Atlantic Books. There will be further editions around the world re-issued over the next 6 months. Stay tuned!
SUMMARY:
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.
INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR THE COLLAPSE OF GLOBALISM
“It should be made required reading for all Indian policy makers, Indian economists of whatever persuasion and indeed all concerned Indians” – Sahara Times (New Delhi)
“For a fresh understanding of globalism in a new light, John Saul’s book is a must read” – Free Press Journal (Mumbai)
“His finest work to date…Saul’s post mortem on globalization is a searing account of the chaos, injuries and instability that have followed it. Despite this, he ends on a hopeful note, one that shows great faith in human resilience” – Winnipeg Free Press
“An ambitious take-no-prisoners assault on the three-decade-long experiment with global trade. It is nothing if not courageous” – Calgary Herald
“delightfully witty” – Times Colonist (Victoria)
“A thoughtful and intellectually rigorous study of globalism’s rise and, if Saul is correct, imminent fall…[H]is salient analysis is as accessible and relevant to the small shop owner as it is to the CEO of a multinational corporation” – Publishers Weekly
“The Collapse of Globalism reminds us what the global economy really is – it’s something that humans have created…This is the start of a new debate” – Forbes
“An entertaining and wide-ranging account of how economists, corporate leaders and politicians fell under the spell of globalisation” – The Age (Melbourne)
“[Globalism] was a period in which economists got above themselves and were allowed to colonise the space left by a failure of political leadership” – New Zealand Herald (Auckland)
“[The Collapse of Globalism] is like being raked by a full broadside from HMS Victory” – Paul Kennedy, The Sunday Times (London)
“Informative, engaging and, above all, bitingly critical…[It] is a breath of fresh air to read the unauthorized version” – The Guardian (London)
“Saul has a keen eye for hypocrisy and a pungently dry wit” – The Independent (London)
“He excels in asking the right questions about why globalist ideology is under serious attack…[H]is views on China’s spectacular growth are engaging and refreshing” – China Daily
"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
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