One of Britain's most prominent political scientists faces the decade we live perilously living—from 9/11 to the Arab Spring, the economic crisis, China's rise, and conflicts in the Middle East—turning upside-down the orthodoxies of the previous generation.
The Revenge of History, an anthology of Milne's columns and articles published in The Guardian between 1997 and 2012, is a severe corrective to the dominant discourse in the first decade of the 21st century. Through a panoramic narrative, Milne examines the causes of the credit crisis and the Great Recession, reveals how humanitarian intervention policy is a failed appropriation of territory, explains the engine behind China's colossal economy, and discovers new models of society that are flourishing in Latin America. Bright, bold and always incisive, this work is obligatory to understand what has gone wrong: the upheavals t...read more