Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century - Paperback

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Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century - Paperback

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century - Paperback

by Helen Thompson
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by Helen Thompson (Author)

Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.

The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition, destabilised the Middle East, ruptured the European Union, and exposed old political fault lines in the United States.

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century is a long history of this present political moment. It recounts three histories - one about geopolitics, one about the world economy, and one about western democracies - and explains how in the years of political disorder prior to the pandemic the disruption in each became one big story. It shows how much of this turbulence originated in problems generated by fossil-fuel energies, and it explains why as the green transition takes place the long-standing predicaments energy invariably shapes will remain in place.

The Afterword brings these geopolitical, economic, and political crises up to date by reflecting on the development and impact of the war in Ukraine.

Author Biography

Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge University

Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and Deputy Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the author of Oil and the Western Economic Crisis (2017); China and the Mortgaging of America (2010); and Might, Right, Prosperity and Consent: Representative Democracy and the International Economy (2008). Helen has been a regular contributor to the podcast Talking Politics. She has written articles for the London Review of Books, The New York Times, and The Financial Times, and is a contributing writer to the New Statesman.
Number of Pages: 416
Dimensions: 1.5 x 7.1 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: October 26, 2023
ISBN9780198865018
Author Helen Thompson
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreNews & politics and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages416
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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