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Author:

Thompson, Helen, 1966 June 13- author.

Title:

Disorder : hard times in the 21st century / Helen Thompson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xv, 367 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Geopolitics.
Western countries--Politics and government--21st century.
Western countries--Economic conditions--21st century.
Géopolitique.
geopolitics.
Economic history.
Geopolitics.
Politics and government.
Western countries.
2000-2099

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: disruption -- Geopolitics. The age of oil begins ; The impossible oil guarantee ; Eurasia remade -- Economy. Our currencies, your problem ; Made in China, need dollars ; We are not in Kansas any more -- Democratic politics. Democratic time ; The rise and decline of the democratic tax state ; Whither reform -- Conclusion: the more things change.

Summary:

"Explains why we in the West, live in the political times we do; a moment of historical time arising from systemic dynamics that have wrought predicaments to confront and not problems to be solved. A retrospective and predictive account of the political shocks of 2016 and onwards, and how the specific consequences of the structural historical forces at work are ongoing and in good part inexorable. Argues that these political times arise and disruption will continue from the intersection of fault lines generated by a geopolitical cycle that has been disrupted, but is not over"--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780198864981
0198864981

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)