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Author Ramo, Joshua Cooper.

Title The age of the unthinkable : why the new world disorder constantly surprises us and what we can do about it / Joshua Cooper Ramo.

Imprint New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.931 R147a 2009    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 279 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-276) and index.
Contents Pt. 1: The sandpile effect. The nature of the age ; The old physics ; The sandpile ; Avalanche country ; Budweiser -- Pt. 2: Deep security. Mashup ; The general and the billionaire ; The management secrets of Hizb'allah ; The limits of persuasion ; Riding the earthquake ; The revolution and you.
Summary Drawing upon history, economics, complexity theory, human immunology, psychology, and his own extraordinary experiences, Ramo delivers a brilliant new paradigm for understanding the dangerous--and dangerously unpredictable--new global order.
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009.
United States -- Military policy.
World politics -- 21st century.
ISBN 9780316118088
0316118087
Standard No. AU@ 000043761620
NZ1 12874252
BWX R2778926
AU@ 000044172879

 
    
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