Bruno Maçães Livres

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Popular consensus says that the US rose over 150 years to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History's great civilisations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, the US was overshadowed by Europe for its first two centuries. What if this isn't the end?Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America's future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, Maçães takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path. We can see the birth pangs of this new civilisation in today's debates on guns, religion, foreign policy and the significance of Trump. What will its values be, and what will this new America look like?

China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. Most importantly, it symbolises a new phase in China's ambitions as a superpower: to remake the world economy and crown Beijing as the new centre of capitalism and globalisation. Bruno Maçães traces this extraordinary initiative's history, highlighting its achievements to date, and its staggering complexity. He asks whether Belt and Road is about more than power projection and profit. Might it herald a new set of universal political values, to rival those of the West? Is it, in fact, the story of the century?

As we approach catastrophe, everything changes. Geopolitics for the End Time explores how Covid-19 has already transformed the global system, and how it serves as a prelude to a planet afflicted by climate change. What are the lessons from the pandemic? How well have different cultures and societies responded to the challenge, and can the current moment become a turning point in the flow of history? Before Covid struck, we could already see a new competition arising between alternative geopolitical models--but it wasn't clear what the background for this competition would be. If the clash took place within the existing global trade and financial system, the United States would feel confident of decisive victory. But what if it takes place on neutral ground? What if it takes place in a state of nature, with few or no political rules, amid quickly evolving chaos? If the greatest threat to national security is no longer other states, but the environment itself, which countries might now rise to the top? This book is one of the first to see the pandemic in history, and to anticipate the profound ways in which it has ushered in a new and surprising world-political landscape.

A sharp vision of our changing world order as Covid and climate breakdown usher in a new ‘survival of the fittest’.

Globální role USA se mění, místo na výsluní si nárokují draví konkurenti v čele s Čínou. Chýlí se čas silného Západu ke konci? Světově uznávaný analytik Bruno Maçaes přináší strhující vhled do ducha Ameriky a dává řád věcem, které jsou Evropanům na první pohled nesrozumitelné. Amerika nyní píše nový příběh. Staré pořádky mizí, přichází virtualismus.

Svět, který jsme znali, je pryč. Pandemie byla tvrdým budíčkem. Bruno Maçães odhaluje, že jsme žili v iluzi. Nejsme vládci planety a příroda není o nic méně nebezpečná,než tomu bylo kdysi. Je na čase ptát se, kudy dál. Je před námi zápas o naši existenci - nevyhnutelný a nekonečný. A postup vpřed znamená hlubokou proměnu mezinárodních vztahů.