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John Ralston Saul is an award-winning essayist and novelist and the president of PEN International. He holds a PhD from King's College London. His books are available in thirty-one countries and have been translated into twenty-three languages. He is the recipient of Chile's Pablo Neruda Medal, toon meer Canada's Governor General's Award and Italy's Premio Letterario Internazionale, among others. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France. He lives in Toronto. toon minder
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Werken van John Ralston Saul

The Unconscious Civilization (1995) 652 exemplaren
On Equilibrium (2001) 348 exemplaren
Baraka (1983) 45 exemplaren
The Birds of Prey (1977) 44 exemplaren
The Paradise Eater (1988) 41 exemplaren
De gouden driehoek (1986) 26 exemplaren
Dark Diversions (2012) 15 exemplaren
El goce del paraiso (1988) 9 exemplaren
Mort d'un général : [roman] (1977) 3 exemplaren
Mort de la globalisation (2006) 3 exemplaren
Le citoyen dans un cul-de-sac? (1996) — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
Dravci (1977) 1 exemplaar
El placer eterno (1990) 1 exemplaar
I ‰figli della palude (1990) 1 exemplaar
Gioco crudele (1991) 1 exemplaar
Prohnilý ráj (1995) 1 exemplaar

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This book charts the rise and fall of the 'globalism' aka neoconservative or neoliberal movement from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Saul describes it as a movement which made economics the prime mover of international relations, the idea that capital could flow around the world with such ease that overall wealth would increase and nation-states would become obsolete. It was like a religious belief, not particularly borne out by the results of the experiment, which increased inequality and led to corporate enrichment at the cost of entire countries. Globalism ignored culture, society and religion in favour of trade.

Having defined Globalism thus, Saul continued to talk about the 'technocratic elites' and their 'globalism'. I didn't necessarily disagree with the thesis of globalism's decline; many events after the publication of the book have confirmed it: the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, the rise of Bad China, Trump and Brexit in the teens and lately the 2020s pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. However I wanted to know how these 'elites' came to dominate the thinking of 'Western' governments and how they stayed enmeshed in their institutions for so long with little apparent result. I wanted more historical analysis than this book could provide. Instead there was a cherry-picking of events from the two decades to demonstrate the author's arguments, which I found unsatisfying.

The book did remind me of various events of the 1990s and inspired me to pick up a related work, Timothy Garton-Ash's 'History of the Present' (also written in the 1990s). More on that in another review.
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