Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis - Hardcover

Macaes, Bruno

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178738554X ISBN 13: 9781787385542

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

*A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF 2021*

’GRIPPING, TERRIFYING AND REVEALING IN EQUAL MEASURES.’ – Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

’PERCEPTIVE.’ – The Economist

A sharp vision of our changing world order as Covid and climate breakdown usher in a new ‘survival of the fittest’.

How well have different cultures and societies responded, and could this become a turning point in the flow of history?

Before Covid, a new competition was already arising between alternative geopolitical models–but the context of this clash wasn’t yet clear. What if it takes place on neutral ground? In a state of nature, with few or no political rules, amid quickly evolving chaos? When the greatest threat to national security is no longer other states, but the environment itself, which countries might rise to the top?

This book explores how Covid-19 has already transformed the global system, and how it serves as a prelude to a planet afflicted by climate change. Bruno Maçães is one of the first to see the pandemic as the dawn of a new strategic era, heralding a profoundly changed world-political landscape.

Cover image: Ludwig Meidner, ‘Apocalyptic City’, 1913. © Ludwig Meidner-Archiv, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main

About this title

About the Author

Bruno Macaes was the Portuguese Europe minister from 2013-2015, and he currently writes a column for the New Statesman. He is the author of The Dawn of Eurasia; Belt and Road; History Has Begun; and Geopolitics for the End Time.

Edition details

• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178738554X
• ISBN 13: 9781787385542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240