World Run Aground

Reflections from The Ideas Letter

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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A discomfiting, heterodox response to our era of polycrisis, seeking to inspire questions and deepen our understanding of world affairs. Have we returned to a world where states have primacy, where ethnicity and ethnonationalism hold significant sway, and where global cooperation is being dramatically reorientated? The relative decline of America is a major factor in this dynamic, but so too is the renewed role of China, India and Brazil on the international stage. Emanating from the Ideas Workshop of the Open Society Foundations, A World Run Aground brings together sharp, often heterodox analyses of pressing global issues. It covers a wide range of topics, including the current condition of global political economics, liberalism and democracy (and their future); the state of the Anthropocene; and the perils and contradictions of artificial intelligence. Rather than trying to convince readers of right and wrong, to push a particular policy position or ideological hobby horse, the contributors offer a big-tent set of perspectives and critical takes on contemporary issues—without demanding that readers take sides. In a volume that rejects politics based on divisive party lines, more questions are raised than answered. With contributions from Quinn Slobodian, Iza Ding, Kaiser Kuo, Evgeny Morozov, Basharat Peer, Nesrine Malik, Ivan Krastev and others, this is a thought-provoking new look at today’s turbulent world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-10
Mått:138 x 216 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
ISBN:9781805266822

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Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Leonard Benardo is Senior Vice President of the Open Society Foundations and Director of its Ideas Workshop. His intellectual background is in Eurasian geopolitics and society, though his interests span all continents. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and Prospect, among others.

Innehållsförteckning

AGAINST THE CURRENT 1. Human Rights on the Edge, Nicholas Bequelin 2. Is It All About Power?: A Response to “Human Rights on the Edge”, LuHan Gabel 3. Further Thoughts: A Rejoinder to LuHan Gabel, Nicholas Bequelin First Principles, Aryeh Neier 4. The Moral Economy of the Far Right, Miri Davidson 5. The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn From China, Kaiser Kuo 6. A New Dependency Theory Moment, Marcos Nobre 7. Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned, Tessy Schlosser 8. Social Democracy After Class?, Bhaskar Sunkara 9. Social Democracy, Immigration, and the Working Class, Sohrab Ahmari 10. The 2024 Nobel Laureates Are Not Only Wrong About China, but Also About the West, Yuen Yuen Ang 11. Disaster Capitalism Revisited Isabella M. Weber 12. The New Legislators of Silicon Valley Evgeny Morozov 13. Intellectual Historians Confront the Present: An Interview with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Leonard Benardo PLACES 14. An Inescapable Past Shehryar Fazli 15. Sudan and the Silence of the Activists, Nesrine Malik 16. Goodbye, Gibbon, Iza Ding 17. India and America: A Certain Ambivalence, Basharat Peer 18. Peronism Now, Jordana Timerman 19. Tunisia: When Obsolete Anti-imperialism Kills Democracy, Nadia Marzouki MEDITATIONS 20. Flights of the Intelligentsia, Leonid Ragozin 21. My New York Intellectuals, Tomiwa Owolade 22. Writing from the Vortex of War, Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq 23. Lasching Out, Soli Özel 24. Rethinking Foreign Aid (From the Inside), Almut Rochowanski 25. Malaparte!, Gary Indiana 26. The Return of the Future and the Last Man: An Interview with Ivan Krastev, Carlos Bravo Regidor