What next? : surviving the twenty-first century / by Chris Patten.

By:

Patten, Chris, 1944-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Allen Lane, 2008.Description: p. cmISBN:

0713998563 (hbk.)
9780713998566 (hbk.)

DDC classification:

909.83 22

Partial contents:

1. Funny old world. - - 2. The journey so far. - - 3.Les big macs. - - 4. Skies of flame. - - 5. Mushroom clouds - - 7. A hundred million rifles. - - 8. Blood and water. - -9.Stuff happens. - - 10. Hooked. - - 11.Filling the tank. -- - 12.Hotting up. - - 13.Coughs and sneezes.14. Let freedom ring. - - 15. and also....

Subject: Globalisation, energy, international crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear proliferation, small arms proliferation, international drugs trafficking, climate change, water shortage, migration, epidemic disease, the fraying of the nation state: the list of challenges facing our world is itself proliferating rapidly, and nobody seems to have much of a grip on what is going on. Digesting vast amounts of information from a multiplicity of sources, and drawing on his experience at the highest levels of national and international politics, Chris Patten analyses what we know in each of these areas and argues how in each of them we could get somewhere we might want to be. Very little, he says, has turned out as we might have expected twenty years ago, but there is plenty we can still do. Readers of Patten's previous books will know what a penetrating analyst and engaging writer he is. This is his most ambitious and impressive yet.

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Globalisation, energy, international crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear proliferation, small arms proliferation, international drugs trafficking, climate change, water shortage, migration, epidemic disease, the fraying of the nation state: the list of challenges facing our world is itself proliferating rapidly, and nobody seems to have much of a grip on what is going on. Digesting vast amounts of information from a multiplicity of sources, and drawing on his experience at the highest levels of national and international politics, Chris Patten analyses what we know in each of these areas and argues how in each of them we could get somewhere we might want to be. Very little, he says, has turned out as we might have expected twenty years ago, but there is plenty we can still do. Readers of Patten's previous books will know what a penetrating analyst and engaging writer he is. This is his most ambitious and impressive yet.

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