Governing the World by Mark Mazower

Governing the World by Mark Mazower

A majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world's governing institutions

The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity's worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. Mark Mazower's Governing the World tells the epic, two-hundred-year story of that inevitable tension--the unstable and often surprising alchemy between ideas and power. From the rubble of the Napoleonic empire in the nineteenth century through the birth of the League of Nations and the United Nations in the twentieth century to the dominance of global finance at the turn of the millennium, Mazower masterfully explores the current era of international life as Western dominance wanes and a new global balance of powers emerges.

Ira D. Mazower is the Ira D. Mazower is the Ira D. Mazower is Columbia University's Wallach Professor of History He is the author of several books, including Hitler's Empire and The Balkans: A Brief History, which won the Wolfson Award for History. He currently resides in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780143123941
ISBN 10	0143123947
Title	Governing the World
Author	Mark Mazower
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-08-27
Number of pages	496
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