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After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order

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內容簡介 出自獲獎作家之手，一部關於民族國家誕生及其失敗後果的宏大全球史，獻給皮凱提與提摩希·史奈德的讀者。民族國家體系正處於動盪之中。隨著美國霸權的瓦解，焦慮的西方國家滑向了仇外心理與債務危機。自由主義的思想與制度正在失去聲望；相比之下，中國、俄羅斯和阿聯酋等專制國家正在崛起。與此同時，對於那些被民族國家徹底遺棄的人來說，除了透過威脅生命的移民之外，別無未來。總而言之，全球政治秩序為人類提供的安全保障越來越少，而威脅卻越來越多。拉納·達斯古普塔追溯了這一體系的形成與興起，以解釋其今日多重失敗的原因。他帶領我們從古代帝國的覆滅、歐洲金錢與法律概念的擴張，一直看到二十世紀科技公司的浮現——這些公司對民族國家構成了強大的競爭——以及中國力量跨時代的復興。他主張，現在是時候發展出一種新的公民、法律與經濟概念了——這種概念必須與我們自身全球化且生態脆弱的現狀相契合。《後國家時代》是一部迫切且敏銳的政治與歷史分析之作，對於任何想要了解為何我們似乎正在失去對世界的政治掌控，以及我們該如何嘗試恢復這種掌控的人來說，這都是一本必讀之書。From a prizewinning writer, a sweeping global history of the birth of nation-states and the consequences of their failure, for readers of Thomas Piketty and Timothy SnyderThe system of nation-states is in convulsion. As American hegemony unwinds, anxious Western countries slide into xenophobia and debt. Liberal ideas and institutions are losing their prestige; autocracies like China, Russia, and the UAE, by contrast, are rising. For those most completely abandoned by nation-states, meanwhile, there is no future except through life-threatening migration. All in all, the global political order offers human beings ever fewer securities—and ever more threats.Rana Dasgupta traces the formation and rise of this system in order to explain the cause of its multiple failures today. He takes us from the fall of ancient empires and the expansion of European concepts of money and law, right up to the emergence of twenty-first-century tech firms—which present formidable competition to nation-states—and the epochal restoration of Chinese power. He posits that the time has come to develop a new conception of citizenship, law, and economy—one that corresponds to our own globalized and ecologically fragile condition.An urgent work of astute political and historical analysis, After Nations is an essential text for anyone looking to understand why we seem to be losing our political hold on the world, and how we might try to restore it.

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作者介紹 拉納·達斯古普塔 (Rana Dasgupta)英籍印度裔知名作家，曾獲「大英國協作家獎」（Commonwealth Writers' Prize）等多項殊榮。他以對全球化、城市化及其社會影響的尖銳觀察著稱，代表作包括《德里：喧囂的怪獸》（Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi）。達斯古普塔被公認為當代最能精準捕捉「全球南方」與「西方世界」交織衝突的知識分子之一。Rana Dasgupta is the author of two novels and a non-fiction portrait of twenty-first century Delhi. Dasgupta was a visiting fellow in the humanities at Princeton University and has taught as a visiting lecturer at Brown University. His essays have been published in The Guardian, New Statesman, and BBC.com, and his writing has won the Windham Campbell Prize, the Commonwealth Prize, and the Ryszard Kapuściński Award. He lives in Delhi.

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最佳賣點 : 民族國家正在崩潰？獲獎史家橫跨數世紀，深度解析美國霸權衰落、科技巨頭奪權與中國復興。當舊秩序無法再保障安全，我們如何重構公民權與經濟？一本對標皮凱提，助你讀懂全球政局動盪底層邏輯的必讀巨作。