Overview

A new world crisis is already looming. By 2014, our generation's legacy to the twenty-first century will be decided. Will it be a century of climatic disaster and war? The roots of the present crisis lie in an unbalanced globalization which has failed to match economic with political integration. False models of nationhood, markets, and empires have hindered the development of global governance. If human civilization is to survive the twenty-first century, current ideologies will have to give way to a more realistic acceptance of supranational authorities, and especially of an enhanced IMF and WTO. The banking collapse and its ramifications call for a revived understanding of the interdependence of politics and economics. The self-images of nations have lost touch with the realities that determine our lives: it is the world order that now gives us our identity and alone can secure our collective future.

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Extract featured--,

Interview in 'The Late Show' Talk Sport, 20th June

Article 'Could 2014 spell yet another crisis?' in Cambridge News, 17th June

Extract featured--Sanford Lakoff

Article ' 2014 will determine course of history, says Cambridge professor.' in Daily Telegraph, 17th June Article '2014: watch out' on Professional Security website, 19th June Interview on BBC Radio Scotland, 18th June Article 'Historian warns of looming political crisis' in Reuters(UK), 18th June Extract featured--The Tablet Interview in BBC3 Counties, 21st June Article '21st century political crisis looms' in Daily Dispatch, 19th June Article '2014 the next world crisis?' on physorg.com website, 19th June Interview in 'The Late Show' Talk Sport, 20th June Live interview & article 'Why 2014 Could Mean Everything To Your Portfolio' in CNBC, 18th June Interview in South African Broadcasting Corporation, 19th June Extract featured--, Interview in South AfricanBroadcasting Corporation, 19th June Live interview & article 'Why 2014 Could Mean Everything To YourPortfolio' in CNBC, 18thJune Article '2014: watch out' on ProfessionalSecurity website, 19th June Article '2014 the next world crisis?' onphysorg.com website, 19th June Article '21st century political crisislooms' in Daily Dispatch, 19th June Interview in 'The Late Show' TalkSport, 20th June Interview on BBC Radio Scotland, 18thJune Article 'Historian warns of looming politicalcrisis' in Reuters(UK), 18thJune Article 'Will the Next World Crisis Occur In 2014?' on impactlab.com website, 18th June Article 'World could be plunged into crisis in 2014: Cambridge expert predicts 'a great event' will determine course of the century' in Daily Mail, 17th June Article 'Professor: Only Global Governance Can Save Us From A Century Of Chaos' in Prison Planet, 17th June Article 'Could 2014 spell yet another crisis?' in Cambridge News, 17th June A tempting thesis, leavened with erudite references, to Hegel, Bentham, Johnson and Jefferson, and sound on the confused waffle that surrounds human rights. --Sanford Lakoff Extract featured--Sanford Lakoff Employing a trenchant and powerful combination of insights from philosophy, history and political/social/economic analysis ... Boyle rigorously guides us towards understanding the deeper causes - and possible ways out - of our global crisis.--Sanford Lakoff

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Nicholas Boyle is Fellow and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is Schroder Professor of German at the University. Professor Boyle is the author of a major award-winning three volume biography of Goethe and also of German Literature: A Very Short Introduction (OUP) and Who Are We Now? (University of Notre Dame Press). In 2000, he was awarded the Goethe Medal of the Goethe-Institut.

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