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100	1		_aThompson, Helen
245	1	0	_aDisorder : _bhard times in the 21st century _cby Helen Thompson.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c©2022
300			_axv, 367 p. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aThis book includes index.
520			_a"Hard Times explains the historical origins of the political shocks of the past decade, showing how the Covid-19 crisis blew apart fault lines in western democracies, the US-China relationship, NATO, and the European Union that had been accumulating for decades. The book tells three historical stories. The geopolitical story begins with the inherent difficulties the United States faced as an ascendant non-Eurasian power in the early twentieth century, especially in the Middle East, and culminates in the American turn away from China in a world in which the United States is simultaneously a declining military power and a resurgent energy and financial power. The economic story begins in the 1970s and explains how the rise of the Eurodollar system and the decade's energy crises remade the monetary world and the European Union, and how the Federal Reserve and China's response to the 2007-8 crash in preventing an economic collapse let lose a succession of economic and energy problems that cannot now be resolved. The final story situates the present instability in the need for democracies to maintain 'losers' consent' and to be repaired when they become unbalanced. It also shows why such repair is so difficult under present geopolitical and economic conditions"--
650			_aGeopolitics
650			_aWestern countries
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aEconomic history
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