WHAT NEXT?: SURVIVING THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
by PATTEN, CHRIS
List Price: HK$ 325.00
¡@ISBN
9780713998566
¡@Subject
CURRENT AFFAIRS
¡@Publisher
ALLEN LANE UK
¡@Publication
2008
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
Globalisation, energy, international crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, nuclear proliferation, small arms proliferation, international drugs trafficking, climate change, water shortage, migration, epidemic disease, the fraying of the nation state: the list of challenges facing our world is itself proliferating rapidly, and nobody seems to have much of a grip on what is going on. Digesting vast amounts of information from a multiplicity of sources, and drawing on his experience at the highest levels of national and international politics, Chris Patten analyses what we know in each of these areas and argues how in each of them we could get somewhere we might want to be. Very little, he says, has turned out as we might have expected twenty years ago, but there is plenty we can still do.
