The Collapse of Globalism

Globalization is dead. Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are on the retreat. The shining-eyed optimism of more open, more equal societies has given way to demagoguery and nationalism. As the problems of immigration, extremism and the economy cause the world's nations to rethink their relationships, John Ralston Saul's brilliantly insightful The Collapse of Globalism lights the way to where we go from here.



John Ralston Saul's books have been published in more than twenty-five countries and a dozen languages. He has received a PhD from King's College, was President of the Canadian Centre of International PEN from 1990 to 1992 and was named by the Utne Reader as one of the '100 Visionaries of the World' in 1995. Appointed a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996, John Ralston Saul recently received the Pablo Neruda Medal.



Informative, engaging and, above all, bitingly critical... An eminently readable book.



This is the start of a new debate.



Saul's arguments make original reading.



Elegantly written and deeply important... Saul has provided a vital analysis of why globalization was never inevitable and always destined to fail, and what will come in its place.



Saul brings a great breadth of literary and cultural knowledge to his task... and there is much evidence to support Saul's contention that things are going badly wrong with our planet.