EDWARD LUCE

Em O liberalismo em retirada, Edward Luce apresenta um instigante ponto acerca do enfraquecimento da hegemonia ocidental e da crise do liberalismo democrático – de que Donald Trump e seus pares europ

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew BrzezinskiPresident Carters national security advisor and one of Americas leading geopolitical thinkersfrom one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today.Zbigniew Brzezinski was a key architect of the Soviet Unions demise, which ended the Cold War. A child of Warsawthe heart of central Europes bloodlandsBrzezinski turned his fierce resentment at his homelands razing by Nazi Germany and the Red Army into a lifelong quest for liberty. Born the year that Joseph Stalin consolidated power, and dying a few months into Donald Trumps first presidency, Brzezinski was shaped by and in turn shaped the global power struggles of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As counsel to US presidents from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, and chief foreign policy figure of the late 1970s under Jimmy Carter, Brzezinski converted his acclaim as a Sovietologist into Washington power. With Henry Kissinger, his lifelong rival with whom he had a fraught on-off relationship, he personified the new breed of foreign-born scholar who thrived in Americas Cold War Universityand who ousted Washingtons gentlemanly class of WASPs who had run US foreign policy for so long.Brzezinskis impact, aided by his unusual friendship with the Polish-born John Paul II, sprang from his knowledge of Moscows Achilles heelthe fact that its nationalities, such as the Ukrainians, and satellite states, including Poland, yearned to shake off Moscows grip. Neither a hawk nor a dove, Brzezinski was a biting critic of George W. Bushs Iraq War and an early endorser of Obama. Because he went against the DC grain of joining factions, and was on occasion willing to drop Democrats for Republicans, Brzezinski is something of historys orphan. His historic role has been greatly underweighted. In the almost cinematic arc of his life can be found the grand narrative of the American century and great power struggle that followed.

A panorama of the unravelling world order as riveting as any beach readNew YorkerRead this book: in the three hours it takes you will get a new, bracing and brilliant understanding of the dangers we in the democratic West now face. Luce is one of the smartest journalists working today, and his perceptions are priceless Jane Mayer, staff writer on the New YorkerNo one was more prescient about the economic malaise and popular resentment that has hit the United States than Ed Luce in his previous book, Time to Start Thinking. His new book, Retreat of Western Liberalism, broadens that picture to cover the Western world. It is a must read for anyone trying to make sense of the waves of populism and nationalism we face today Liaquat AhamedIn his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of American economic and geopolitical decline, proving to be a prescient voice on our current social and political turmoil.In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of democratic liberalism - of which Donald Trump and his European counterparts are not the cause, but a symptom. Luce argues that we are on a menacing trajectory brought about by ignorance of what it took to build the West, arrogance towards societys losers, and complacency about our systems durability - attitudes that have been emerging since the fall of the Berlin Wall, treated by the West as an absolute triumph over the East. We cannot move forward without a clear diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Luce contrasts Western democratic and economic ideals, which rest on an assumption of linear progress, with more cyclical views of economic strength - symbolized by the nineteenth-century fall and present-day rise of the Chinese and Indian economies - and with the dawn of a new multipolar age.Combining on-the-ground reporting with intelligent synthesis of the vast literature already available, Luce offers a detailed projection of the consequences of the Trump administration and a forward-thinking analysis of what those who believe in enlightenment values must do to defend them from the multiple onslaughts they face in the coming years.

On its present course, the US faces a world of rising new countries that will compete with it ever more fiecely as its own power is declining. In order to slow and improve this steady leakage of power, the US must change course internationally, economically and domestically. It must also restructure to remain the worlds most competitive economy. And it must address quality of life issues and fairness at home. But American politics is broken -- competing forces and interests have led to stasis. With change so tough, where now for a country where the middle classes are suffering as they have never suffered before, the pensions crisis is growing, the deficit out of sight, and radicalism waiting in the wings?

«El presente libro no es un canto de amor a la cultura y las antigüedades de la India. He leído demasiadas alabanzas a la India escritas por plumas extranjeras para plantearme siquiera la posibilidad