Governing the World

Governing the World by Assistant Of History 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.

Mark Mazower is the Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of Hitler s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44, Dark Continent: Europe s Twentieth Century, The Balkans: A Short History (which won the Wolfson Prize for History), Salonica: City of Ghosts (which won both the Duff Cooper Prize and the Runciman Award), and Hitler s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe. He has also taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, Sussex University and Princeton. He lives in New York.

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ISBN 10	1594203490
Title	Governing the World
Author	Assistant Of History Mark Mazower
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2012-09-13
Number of pages	475
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