New York Times Bestseller An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders.
And the so-called Vegas rule--what happens there stays there--does not apply in.
Although the United States is bordered by two oceans, those oceans are not moats.
Global literacy--knowing how the world works--is a must, as what goes on outside a country matters enormously to what happens inside.
In short, this book will make readers more globally literate and put them in a position to make sense of this era.
While it is impossible to predict what the next crisis will be or where it will originate, those who read The World will have what they need to understand its basics and the principal choices for how to respond.
Readers will become more informed, discerning citizens, better able to arrive at sound, independent judgments.
It will empower them to manage the flood of daily news.
The World is designed to provide readers of any age and experience with the essential background and building blocks they need to make sense of this complicated and interconnected world.
This is the new normal of the 21st century.
In 2008, it was a global financial crisis caused by mortgage-backed securities in America, but one day it could well be a financial contagion originating in Europe, Asia, or Africa.
In recent years, severe hurricanes and large fires linked to climate change have ravaged parts of the earth; in the future we can anticipate even more serious natural disasters.
Now they have burrowed into our political life.
In 2016 hackers in a nondescript office building in Russia traveled virtually in cyberspace to manipulate America\'s elections.
Next time it could be terrorists who use a truck bomb or gain access to a weapon of mass destruction.
Twenty years ago it was a group of terrorists trained in Afghanistan and armed with box-cutters who commandeered four airplanes and flew them into buildings (and in one case a field) and claimed nearly three thousand lives.
Next time it could well be another infectious disease from somewhere else.
This time, it is a Coronavirus known as Covid-19, which originated in a Chinese city many had never heard of but has spread to the corners of the earth.
Like it or not, we live in a global era, in which what happens thousands of miles away has the ability to affect our lives.
New York Times Bestseller An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond our borders
