Disorder

Hard Times in the 21st Century

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Disorder

By: Helen Thompson

Narrated by: Kitty Kelly

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Summary

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

The twenty-first 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, destabilized 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 longstanding predicaments energy invariably shapes will remain in place.

Helen ThompsonKitty KellyTantor Audio

Politics & Government

21st Century

Politics & Government 21st Century

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This is a very important book. It looks at the complexity of global trade, energy and politics. It shows how democracy walks a regular tightrope and that the recent problems with “losers consent” in the U.K., EU and especially in the US are a risk that needs to be dealt with. The history of energy is particularly important as it explains the relationships versions countries have to supply oil, gas etc. it looks at the fault lines in the EU and NATO which help explain many if the problems we see today.