| NOTAS: | "As the state domain has been rolled back around almost the entire world, and as global markets have expanded in scope and power, what is left for governments and the nation state? David Howell argues that, far from the day of the nation than ever in the emerging network world. But the tasks of governing nations badly need defining. Politics in the new millennium continues to revolve around economics, and economics continues to rely on time-expired theories about how individuals and economics behave and on ever more unreliable statistics. New insights from the worlds of science and biology, combined with the new realities of a largely privatized and globalized world order, have changed for ever the way governments need to govern and politicians to seek and retain power and influence. In this remarkable book David Howell, who has worked both at the highest level in government and deep inside the global financial machine, and who has unrivalled experience of international affairs, raises the key questions for democracy in the new millennium." |
