TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burleigh,Michael
TI  - The best of times, the worst of times: a history of now 
SN  - 9781509847884
AV  - D863 .B8677 2017
U1  - 909.83/1 22
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan
KW  - World politics
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Economic history
N1  - icnlude index; Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-409) and index; Machine generated contents note; 1; Two Shocks That Made Our World ��ncandescent with Moral Clarity': The Post-Cold War Present --; 2; Gulf Rivals --; 3; Islamic State (ISIS): Messages In Blood --; 4; The Sick Man of Europe: Erdogan's Turkey --; 5; Failed Nation? Russia Under Putin --; 6; China: A Country for Old Men --; 7; The USA: The Noisy Nation --; 8; Empire of Virtue: The European Union
N2  - "In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the 21st century - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath and, second, the financial crash of 2008 - have threatened the general acceptance that continued progress under the benign (or sometimes not so benign) gaze of the western powers is the only way forwards. And as America turns inwards and Europe is beset by austerity politics and populist nationalism, the post-war consensus looks less and less secure. But is this really the worst of times? In a forensic examination of the world we now live in, historian Michael Burleigh sets out to answer that question."--
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