2014: How to Survive the Next World Crisis - Softcover

Boyle, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441169369 ISBN 13: 9781441169365

Publisher: Continuum, 2011

Synopsis

A new world crisis is already looming. By 2014, our generation's legacy to the twenty-first century will be decided. Will it be a century of climatic disaster and war? The roots of the present crisis lie in an unbalanced globalization which has failed to match economic with political integration. False models of nationhood, markets, and empires have hindered the development of global governance.

If human civilization is to survive the twenty-first century, current ideologies will have to give way to a more realistic acceptance of supranational authorities, and especially of an enhanced IMF and WTO. The banking collapse and its ramifications call for a revived understanding of the interdependence of politics and economics. The self-images of nations have lost touch with the realities that determine our lives: it is the world order that now gives us our identity and alone can secure our collective future.

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About the Author

Nicholas Boyle is Fellow and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is Schroder Professor of German at the University. Professor Boyle is the author of a major award-winning three volume biography of Goethe and also of German Literature: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) and Who Are We Now? (University of Notre Dame Press). In 2000, he was awarded the Goethe Medal of the Goethe-Institut.

Review

Article '2014 will determine course of history, says Cambridge professor.' in Daily Telegraph, 17th June

Article 'World could be plunged into crisis in 2014: Cambridge expert predicts 'a great event' will determine course of the century' in Daily Mail, 17th June

Article 'Could 2014 spell yet another crisis?' in Cambridge News, 17th June

Article 'Professor: Only Global Governance Can Save Us From A Century Of Chaos' in Prison Planet, 17th June

Live interview & article 'Why 2014 Could Mean Everything To Your Portfolio' in CNBC, 18th June

Article 'Will the Next World Crisis Occur In 2014?' on impactlab.com website, 18th June
Interview on BBC Radio Scotland, 18th June

Article 'Historian warns of looming political crisis' in Reuters(UK), 18th June

Interview in South African Broadcasting Corporation, 19th June

Article '2014: watch out' on Professional Security website, 19th June

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1441169369
• ISBN 13: 9781441169365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200