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The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It – An Acclaimed Guide to Government Competence and Leadership in a Post-Covid-19 World
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"[An] executive summary of modern political history studded with sweeping assertions and telling anecdotes." -- The New York Times Book Review "Thought-provoking." -- Kirkus Reviews "A shot in the arm...powerful." -- The Financial Times " The Wake-Up Call , refreshingly concise and eminently readable, highlights how the modern crisis of governance compounded the challenges of the pandemic." -- Bloomberg " The Wake-Up Call argues that Covid-19 has exposed not just one president's shortcomings but a much more profound degeneration of governance dating back long before 2016...You will read no more interesting book on the political consequences of the pandemic than this." -- Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and the Rest NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 (BLOOMBERG) An urgent and informed look at the challenges America and world governments will face in a post Covid-19 world. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed. Are Western governments healthy and strong enough to keep their citizens safe from another virulent virus—and protect their economies from collapse? Is global leadership passing from the United States to Asia—and particularly China? The Wake-Up Call addresses these urgent questions. Journalists and longtime collaborators John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge identify the problems Western leaders face, and outline a detailed plan to help them become more vigilant, better prepared, and responsive to disruptive future events. The problems that face us are enormous; as The Wake-Up Call makes clear, governments around the world must re-engineer the way they operate to successfully meet the challenges ahead.
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"From two noted internationalists, the picking apart of the international response, including that of the EU, is welcome."
"Thought-provoking, somewhat wonky reading for those looking beyond the current plague toward future geopolitical trends."
"The gimmicky imagining of a fantasy leader who is both a progressive 'social reformer' and a conservative 'small government man' allows the authors to skirt the considerable roadblocks standing in the way of their goals, which include somehow making America a 'race blind society.' Nevertheless, this is a succinct and credible assessment of Western government dysfunctions."
"offers an executive summary of modern political history studded with sweeping assertions and telling anecdotes, a style that will be familiar to readers of The Economist ..."
"Yet Singapore is a city state usually described as an illiberal democracy with a collectivist ethos, surely not something Economist writers would recommend for the more individualistic West ..."
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