Governing the World

Resumen del libro

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

The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanitys worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. Mark Mazowers 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.

Biografía del autor

Mark Mazower (1958) es un historiador de origen britax{0026} x00301;nico especializado en historia de Europa del Siglo XX. Actualmente es profesor titular en la Universidad de Columbia (Nueva York), donde ademax{0026} x00301;s dirige el Heyman Center for Humanities. Ha ensenx{0026} x00303;ado en Princeton o la Universidad de Sussex entre otras. Su obra ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios internacionales, como el italiano Acqui Storia, el britax{0026} x00301;nico Wolfson Prize for History o el Runciman Prize. Es colaborador habitual en medios como el 'Financial Times', 'The Guardian', 'The New York Times' o 'The Independent'. Sus artix{0026} x00301;culos son traducidos en Espanx{0026} x00303;a de manera habitual por el diario 'El Paix{0026} x00301;s'. 'La Europa negra' probablemente sea su obra max{0026} x00301;s celebrada y, por su tesis central, la max{0026} x00301;s polex{0026} x00301;mica y controvertida.