Global Disorder: How to Avoid a Fourth World War - Softcover

Harvey, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786712899 ISBN 13: 9780786712892

Publisher: Carroll & Graf, 2003

Synopsis

In 1990, when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended, economic and political analysts declared the world a safer place. But not political journalist Robert Harvey. The roar of international optimism only intensified the pangs of his geopolitical anxiety. In 1995, in The Return of the Strong, he warned Western democracies that the tides of economic globalization were sweeping the world toward a new crisis. Unfortunately, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, justified Harvey’s alarm. It also prompted him to revise and update his analysis of the dangers facing the free world. Global Disorder not only examines the precarious state of world affairs in the aftermath of 9/11 but also offers far-reaching proposals for the reform of global security. In light of the emergence of the United States as the world’s first megapower, Harvey explores the sources of international tension that have increasingly commanded the attention of the West and lays out the perils inherent in the globalization of capitalism without political or economic control. He presents constructive measures that he believes the West—especially the United States—must undertake to restore stability around the world and truly ensure international security.

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About the Author

Robert Harvey is a former member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, was assistant editor of the Economist, and foreign affairs leader writer for the Daily Telegraph. His books include The Underfeated: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Modern Japan, Portugal: Birth of a Democracy, Liberators and Cochrane.

Review

An all too timely revision of Robert Harvey's highly acclaimed The Return of the Strong - The Drift to Global Disorder published seven years ago in which he argued that the rise of ethnic nationalism, the globalisation of capitalism and a continual series of humanitarian and security crises posed grave dangers to international stability. His prognosis of possible disaster has of course proved well-founded, and, in this cogent analysis of the current global crisis, Harvey - a former Tory MP and a respected political writer - outlines the rise of America as the sole mega-superpower and sets out what he considers to be the sources of today's dangerous international conflicts. He suggests reforms and remedies that could be made by the Western democracies to bring global capitalism under some form of political control.

Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786712899
• ISBN 13: 9780786712892
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352