Description:
The success of the 'Leave' campaign over British EU membership, the conflict in Ukraine, and Donald Trump's Presidency all have implications for a wider stage. Patomäki explores the world-historical mechanisms and processes that have created the conditions for the world's current predicaments and involve potential for better futures.
Review Quotes:
Have we arrived to a New World Disorder? Well, the UK is not any more a stabilising power in Europe, and the US has stopped functioning as stabiliser in the global system. Behind these structural changes we find the manyfold failures of neoliberal economics. In the footsteps of Keynes, Polanyi and Habermas, Heikki Patomäki uncovers the causes and dynamics of these complex crises, but also identifies the keys of a progressive project that can save the legacy of enlightenment and democratic politics in Europe, as well as the world system, and help finding the way back to social progress.
- László Andor, Former EU Commissionner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion