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This book is probably best regarded as a memoir of the author's career as a journalist to date, which I mostly read to get some sense of how an informed foreigner regards the United States; though Eyal is concerned about much more than that. While much of this work deals with "globalism" as unfettered international business practice, where profits are made and the side affects of those practices are "externalized" (i.e. dumped on population being exploited), Eyal has bigger issues he wants to deal with. In the main, Eyal sees the current dysfunction as a result of the era of responsible leadership that followed World War II having passed away, and the successors not appreciating that the system is not a machine that will run on its own without attentive maintenance. Yes, the Cold War was afflicted with a string of lethal proxy wars, but, without getting too nostalgic, matters were kept in bound. What's clear now is that no bounds are really being recognized, and most of the world leadership is playing with fire. Though this book is not that concerned with COVID (the original edition having a publication date of 2018), that might wind up being the real wake-up call about the limits of identity politics and of unfettered nationalism.

Going forward, what Eyal hopes for is a new commitment to a politics appreciating that collective problems do not take care of themselves, and a stronger sense of common decency in terms of handling communities that have been crushed in the gears of the increasing unsustainable world economic system; he realizes he's asking a lot.
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Shrike58 | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 7, 2021 |
A book on globalisation and populism. He argues that right-wing populism arises from a fear of globalisation. The publisher seems to think this is a new breakthrough but it seems to me to be a thesis that is already widely spread. However, as a compilation of many journalistic stories to show the evils that have resulted from globalisation and the irrational answers of populism, it is well worth while reading.
 
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