作者：HelenThompson
出版社：OUPOxford
副标题：HardTimesinthe21stCentury
出版年：2022-2-24
页数：384
定价：GBP20.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780198864981
内容简介
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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s.
Disorder: Hard TImes in the 21st Century 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.
作者简介
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Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University and also Deputy Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the author of Oil and the western economic crisis (2017); China and the mortgaging of America (2010); and Might, right, prosperity and consent: representative democracy and the international economy(2008). Since 2015, Helen has been a regular contributor to the podcast Talking Politics and has written articles for the London Review of Books, The New York Times, and The Financial Times.
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What a coincidence, started to read this book on the day Nord Stream was sabotaged with a bomb
英国人写得东西也太难读了，内容很应和书名，想说的东西太多，缺乏了重点。。。从无数场局部冲突中看出欧洲对俄罗斯能源的依赖，和美国的能源策略(到处都要插一脚寻求利益最大化）。其实离开了US的干涉，世界就能太平了吗，也未必吧。
好难读 信息量好大 但是这文风实在是 作者就是来秀知识量的吧
顺着兰小欢教授的推荐，找来原版读完。
作者主要讲了三件事:
1.能源结构对世界权力的影响:（一战前后英法的煤炭巡洋舰霸权逐渐让位美苏石油燃料的钢铁洪流，石油能源的自主越加重要，但新能源是个结构变量）。
2.货币金融对世界权力结构的影响:（美元、英镑等时代性的世界货币，世界货币的强弱通常也与霸权国家的贸易情况挂钩）。
3.现代国家概念对世界权力结构的影响:（特别是民主代议制对国家认同、税收制度的影…
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