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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Door Fareed Zakaria

Categorie
Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer
#381500-UC19
Titel
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Auteur
Zakaria, Fareed
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave
2021
ISBN10
0141995629
ISBN13
9780141995625
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric threat, set in motion by something seemingly small, and different from anything the world had experienced before. Lenin is supposed to have said, 'There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.' This is one of those times when history has sped up. In this urgent and timely book, Fareed Zakaria, one of the 'top ten global thinkers of the last decade' (Foreign Policy), foresees the nature of a post-pandemic world- the political, social, technological and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. In ten surprising, hopeful 'lessons', he writes about the acceleration of natural ... (Lees verder)and biological risks, the obsolescence of the old political categories of right and left, the rise of 'digital life', the future of globalization and an emerging world order split between the United States and China. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present and future, and will become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century.
Pagina's
325
Conditie
Goed — Signature on endpapers.
Prijs
€ 8,00

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