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Author : Robert D. Kaplan

Publisher : C Hurst & Co. Ltd

ISBN : 9781911723493

Call Number : 320.9 KAP

Summary:

A darkly brilliant, wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with past tyrannies—from a bestselling geopolitical expert. We are entering a new era of global cataclysm; a deadly mix of war, climate change, great-power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, and the end of empire. In Waste Land, renowned world affairs author Robert D. Kaplan explains how we got here and where we are going. Kaplan’s trademark sweep of history, politics and philosophy draws parallels between today’s challenges and those of Germany’s interwar Weimar Republic. Today, too, every national dilemma—pandemics, recessions; urbanisation, mass migration; destabilisation and great-power conflict; and the intimate bonds forged by digital media—could stability and historic liberalism, save world populations from anarchy? Waste Land is a bracing glimpse into a future defined by twenty-first-century technology, but remarkably resonant with the past. The situation may be spiralling out of our control—unless our leaders act first.