{"product_id":"after-nations-the-making-and-unmaking-of-a-world-order","title":"After Nations: The Making And Unmaking Of A World Order","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom A Prizewinning Writer, A Sweeping Global History Of The Birth Of NationStates And The Consequences Of Their Failure, For Readers Of Thomas Piketty And Timothy Snyderthe System Of NationStates Is In Convulsion. As American Hegemony Unwinds, Anxious Western Countries Slide Into Xenophobia And Debt. Liberal Ideas And Institutions Are Losing Their Prestige; Autocracies Like China, Russia, And The Uae, By Contrast, Are Rising. For Those Most Completely Abandoned By NationStates, Meanwhile, There Is No Future Except Through LifeThreatening Migration. All In All, The Global Political Order Offers Human Beings Ever Fewer SecuritiesAnd Ever More Threats.Rana Dasgupta Traces The Formation And Rise Of This System In Order To Explain The Cause Of Its Multiple Failures Today. He Takes Us From The Fall Of Ancient Empires And The Expansion Of European Concepts Of Money And Law, Right Up To The Emergence Of TwentyFirstCentury Tech FirmsWhich Present Formidable Competition To NationStatesAnd The Epochal Restoration Of Chinese Power. He Posits That The Time Has Come To Develop A New Conception Of Citizenship, Law, And EconomyOne That Corresponds To Our Own Globalized And Ecologically Fragile Condition.An Urgent Work Of Astute Political And Historical Analysis, After Nations Is An Essential Text For Anyone Looking To Understand Why We Seem To Be Losing Our Political Hold On The World, And How We Might Try To Restore It.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viking Drill \u0026 Tool","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47953280041205,"sku":"DADAX0399563679","price":46.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71CmCyyZJmL.jpg?v=1775490699","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/after-nations-the-making-and-unmaking-of-a-world-order","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}