What Next Surviving the Twenty-first Century

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出版社: Penguin
2009-07
版次: 1
ISBN: 9780141021454
定价: 128.00
装帧: 平装
开本: 32开
纸张: 胶版纸
页数: 511页
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  •   It is, as Chris Patten notes, a funny old world. And it seemsto be getting funnier by the day. The global triumph of liberaldemocracy, with the world made in America and Europe's image, hasfailed to materialize. What will take its place? Here Patten drawson his many years at the highest levels of international affairs totackle the big questions of our time - from energy shortages to thearms trade, immigration to the ascendancy of the East - offering awise, witty and surprisingly optimistic account of the worldtoday.   Chris Patten is currently co-Chair of the International CrisisGroup, on the Anglo-Indian Round Table, and Chancellor of Oxfordand Newcastle Universities. As a British MP 1979-92 he served asMinister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for theEnvironment and Chairman of the Conservative Party, being describedafterwards as 'the best Tory Prime Minister we never had'(Observer). He is well known for being the last Governor of HongKong 1992-97, about which he wrote in East and West (1998). Boththat and his most recent book, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truthsabout World Affairs (2005), were No 1 international best-sellers.He was made a Companion of Honour in 1998 and a life peer in2005. List of Illustrations

    Acknowledgements

    1 Funny Old World

    2 The Journey So Far

    3 Les Big Macs and the Crash

    4 Skies of Flame

    5 Mushroom Clouds

    6 A Hundred Million Rifles

    7 Greed, Conflict and the 'Bottom Billion'

    8 Blood and Water

    9 Stuff Happens

    10 Hooked

    11 Filling the Tank

    12 Hotting up

    13 Coughs and Sneezes

    14 'Let Freedom Ring'

    15 And So...

    Notes

    Index
  • 内容简介:
      It is, as Chris Patten notes, a funny old world. And it seemsto be getting funnier by the day. The global triumph of liberaldemocracy, with the world made in America and Europe's image, hasfailed to materialize. What will take its place? Here Patten drawson his many years at the highest levels of international affairs totackle the big questions of our time - from energy shortages to thearms trade, immigration to the ascendancy of the East - offering awise, witty and surprisingly optimistic account of the worldtoday.
  • 作者简介:
      Chris Patten is currently co-Chair of the International CrisisGroup, on the Anglo-Indian Round Table, and Chancellor of Oxfordand Newcastle Universities. As a British MP 1979-92 he served asMinister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for theEnvironment and Chairman of the Conservative Party, being describedafterwards as 'the best Tory Prime Minister we never had'(Observer). He is well known for being the last Governor of HongKong 1992-97, about which he wrote in East and West (1998). Boththat and his most recent book, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truthsabout World Affairs (2005), were No 1 international best-sellers.He was made a Companion of Honour in 1998 and a life peer in2005.
  • 目录:
    List of Illustrations

    Acknowledgements

    1 Funny Old World

    2 The Journey So Far

    3 Les Big Macs and the Crash

    4 Skies of Flame

    5 Mushroom Clouds

    6 A Hundred Million Rifles

    7 Greed, Conflict and the 'Bottom Billion'

    8 Blood and Water

    9 Stuff Happens

    10 Hooked

    11 Filling the Tank

    12 Hotting up

    13 Coughs and Sneezes

    14 'Let Freedom Ring'

    15 And So...

    Notes

    Index
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