Lost Future

Jan Zielonka is professor of politics and international relations at the University of Oxford and at the University of Venice, Cá Foscari. He is the author of the prize-winning Counter Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat and is a contributor to several leading European newspapers.

“An impressive new book.”—Tony Barber, Financial Times“The Lost Future made me once again realise that Jan Zielonka is not simply a brilliant writer, but he is also a very rare type of political thinker, responsible iconoclast, and a hopeful sceptic.”—Ivan Krastev, author of Is It Tomorrow Yet?“A clear-sighted and vibrant dissection of many of the problems that beset our modern world. But this is far more than an elegy for a bright future that we will never see. In the end Zielonka outlines a vision, at once tentative and compelling, for breaking out of the systems that constrain us to reclaim the possibility of a different fate.”—James Crawford, author of The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World“Jan Zielonka has deftly and accessibly combined deep physical insights about space and time with an original and interesting diagnosis of the ills facing democracy and the opportunities offered by the networked world. The Lost Future offers provocative new ways of thinking about the present.”—Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World