This book serves as a powerful corrective to the discredited dominant account of the first decade of the twenty-first century. As Seumas Milne shows in a panoramic narrative that reaches from 9/11 to beyond the Arab uprisings, crisis and war have turned the orthodoxies of a generation on their head. The neoliberal market, hailed as the only economic option, crashed with devastating consequences; calamitous western military interventions demonstrated the limits of US global power; the rise of China challenged both; while Latin America has embraced its social and economic alternatives that were sad no longer to exist.
Writing against the grain of the popular narrative, Milne offers a compelling perspective on the convulsions that have brought us to todays crisis and the shape of the emerging politics of the future - and an indictment of a global and corporate empire in decline.