About Book:

      Just a few years into a new century, we’ve arrived at a moment of peril that not long ago would have seemed unimaginable. All around us, the ideas and institutions that we once relied on for our safety and security are failing and the best ideas of our leaders seem to make our problem worse, not better. A global war on terror produces, in the end, more dangerous terrorists. The fight to stop financial crisis seems to accelerate its arrival. Carefully negotiated peace plans produce less peace.

    This wasn’t always the case. For decades, our engagement with the world was based on the power of states and the physics of change. But that traditional physics of power has been replaced by something radically different-and what we face isn’t one single shift, like the end of World War IIor the collapse of the Soviet Union, so much as an unprecedented avalanche of ceaseless, unthinkable change.