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For many years, American foreign insurance policy has been based on the seductive belief that there is a logical romantic relationship between power of state governments and the physics of change. And yet today policies made to make us safer instead make the world more perilous. History's grandest conflict against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, designed to boost the quality of life of people round the world, increases the gap between abundant and poor. Decisions taken up to stem a financial crisis guarantee its arrival. Environmental techniques manufactured to protect kinds lead with their extinction. Midsection East peace programs produce less peace. Our world is not becoming more secure or flatter or better to comprehend. And what we face isn't a unitary shift, like the end of World War Two or the collapse of the Soviet Union, much as a ground-breaking avalanche of ceaseless change.
Now, sketching upon record, economics, intricacy theory, individuals immunology, mindset and his own amazing encounters, Joshua Ramo places forth a radical new model for taking a look at the world, the one that embraces its natural unpredictability--and offers our best hope for working with problems and disasters as they emerge.