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  • Hardcover: 490 pages
  • Publisher: Allen Lane; First Edition edition (2 Oct 2008)
  • ISBN-10: 0713998563
  • ISBN-13: 978-0713998566
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.4 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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'If a few of tomorrow's policy-makers read Patten, my optimism that we can control rather than be controlled by events will grow. Every thinker on, or practitioner of, international affairs, will profit from reading any book that Patten writes on foreign policy'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Comments by Michael Calum Jacques, author of '1st Century Radical'., 2 Dec 2008
This is a good book, entertainingly written and both stimulating and challenging in terms of its topic and content. Published recently (towards the end of September)and weighing in at in excess of 500 pages it is also an absorbing read. But what exactly is it about? Like the rest of the book, the title is pretty clear and open about this.

Even so, it would be easy for certain readers to take one look at the book's topics and shudder; these include the vexed subject of globalisation, energy shortages, international crime syndicates, the worry of both nuclear proliferation and small arms proliferation, international drugs 'trafficking', climate change, water shortages, varieties of population migration, various epidemics, the denigration and deterioration of the nation 'state' concept as well as that old burner, weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

The author, Chris Patten, makes a point, it seems to this reviewer, of tackling this demanding and, to some, actually threatening range of subjects with a great deal of honesty and candour. There are no easy solutions and there probably or possibly, at least, may never be. We begin our path to solving a problem by looking it squarely in the face and acknowledging its existence. So the author acknowledges that precious little of recent history has 'turned out' as we probably expected it would say twenty years ago, and then he moves on to make suggestions of what an individual (and collectively, 'society') can do in order to begin a recalibration and 'setting right' of all these apparently modern ailments. Patten writes with the insight of bridalled experience and the perception of a careful listener and observer of society's traits and characteristics.

This work has already been described as Chris Patten's "most ambitious and impressive yet". This reviewer, for one, would agree with that assessment and commend this book to potential readers, especially to those who are tentative about recent history and those who find themselves pessimistic and fearing what they perceive to be a forbidding future.

Michael Calum Jacques (author of 1st Century Radical: the shadowy origins of the man who became known as Jesus Christ)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Tour de horizon, 15 Feb 2009
By Richard Skipp (Bristol England) - See all my reviews
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The trouble with a tour de horizon at a time like this is that the book reads like a Rough Guide to Insoluble Problems. Chris Patten's book is masterful in its scope and depth. He really disects the problems which the world is facing. He himself remains optimistic about our chances of success. But we seem to be in such deep trouble that it is hard for the reader to keep his chin up. Great book but depressing!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A primer for the modern age, 20 Jan 2009
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This book is, in effect, a primer on the key issues the world faces at the start of the 21st century. Each chapter considers a separate issue - terrorism, water shortages, inequality, the arms trade - how we got to where we are and then what we might do about it. Patten writes with authority, experience and, it must be said, a very readable prose style.

It is both profoundly depressing but also offers some flickers of encouragement. Depressing because many of the solutions are so incredibly stare-you-in-the-face bleedin' obvious but nobody is doing a thing about them (the material on the 'bottom billion' particularly so). But encouraging because solutions - or steps to put us on the path to solutions - are there. Patten is clearly a great internationalist, who has great faith in the ability of international institutions to achieve great things - if they are allowed to do by their members.

You won't agree with every word, but this is a thought provoking and enjoyable read.
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