Mark Leonard

What does China think?

How Connectivity Causes Conflict

Age of Unpeace

A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Compulsively readable... An essential course in geopolitical self-help' - Adam Tooze 'Full of fresh - and often surprising - ideas' - Niall Ferguson 'Extraordinary... One of those rare books that defines the terms of our conversation about our times' - Michael Ignatieff We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications, breaking down borders in the hope of making war impossible. In doing so, they have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of conflict and the motivation to keep fighting. Rising tensions in global politics are not a bump in the road - they are part of the paving. Troublingly, we are now seeing rising conflict at every level, from individuals on social media all the way up to nation-states in entrenched stand-offs. The past decade has seen a new antagonism between the US and China; an inability to co-operate on global issues such as climate change or pandemic response; and a breakdown in the distinction between war and peace, as overseas troops are replaced by sanctions, cyberwar, and the threat of large migrant flows. As a leading authority on international relations, Mark Leonard has been inside many of the rooms where our futures, at every level of society, are being decided - from the Facebook HQ and facial recognition labs in China to meetings in presidential palaces and at remote military installations. In seeking to understand the ways that globalisation has broken its fundamental promise to make our world safer and more prosperous, Leonard explores how we might wrest a more hopeful future from an age of unpeace.

The Age of Unpeace

An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China.

What Does China Think?

Pensavamo che connettere il mondo avrebbe portato a una pace duratura. La pace, invece, ci sta allontanando. Nei tre decenni seguiti alla fine della Guerra fredda i leader mondiali hanno lavorato per far nascere un mondo connesso: hanno integrato l’economia, i trasporti e le comunicazioni a livello planetario, abbattendo le frontiere nella speranza di rendere impossibile la guerra. Così facendo, hanno inconsapevolmente creato un formidabile arsenale di armi per nuovi tipi di tensioni e ostilità. È preoccupante osservare oggi un aumento dei conflitti a tutti i livelli, dai singoli individui sui social media fino alla guerra vera e propria in Europa orientale. Nell’ultimo decennio abbiamo assistito a un nuovo antagonismo tra Stati Uniti, Russia e Cina; all’incapacità di cooperare su questioni globali come il cambiamento climatico e la risposta alle pandemie; e a un crollo della distinzione tra guerra e pace, dal momento che il teatro del conflitto si è allargato fino a includere le sanzioni, la guerra informatica e le pressioni dei grandi flussi migratori. Mark Leonard, autorità di spicco nel campo delle relazioni internazionali, illustra i modi in cui la globalizzazione ha infranto la sua promessa fondamentale di rendere il nostro mondo più sicuro e più prospero, cercando di capire come strappare un futuro di maggiore speranza per quest’epoca di non-pace.

L'era della non-pace

Shearer West

Shelley Bennett

A Passion for Performance: Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists brings together three engaging essays – by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett and Mark Leonard, and Shearer West – that recreate the eventful life, both on and off the stage, of the great eighteenth-century actress Sarah Siddons. Siddons was renowned for her bravura performances in tragic roles, and her fame was enhanced by the many portraits of her painted by the leading artists of the day. The greatest of these was Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, a painting now in the Huntington Art Collections and recently studied at the Getty Center. A Passion for Performance places this magnificent portrait within the context of Siddons’s career as an actress and cultural icon. Includes a chronology of Siddons’s life by volume editor Robyn Asleson.

Sarah Siddons and her Portraitists

A Passion for Performance

Rediscovering Europe

Why Migration, Finance and Trade Are the Geo-Economic Battlegrounds of the Future

Connectivity Wars

Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe.

Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century

Catherine Stead

Conrad Smewing

This report which builds on the interim report, Going public, sets out a practical agenda for public diplomacy which draws on fieldwork in six countries, hundreds of interviews with practitioners, and contributions from the experts in academia and communications.

Public Diplomacy

Let There Be Light accompanies Bill Abrams on a time-traveling journey through history. Harnessing the energy of the sun’s ultraviolet light, his Light Assimilator enables him to travel on a voyage to discover the truth. His adventure takes him to the moments in time in which he discovers how the Ice Age fits into the Bible, the fate of the dinosaurs, the reasons why people lived to be hundreds of years old prior to the flood, and how, in fact, the flood itself could cover the whole earth. Mark Leonard, a veteran presenter at numerous youth conferences and church camps, weaves together the Bible’s truth with this tale of a time-traveling explorer. He tells how, after several test runs, Bill decides to make a journey back to first-century Palestine to see the temple in Jerusalem. Taking off, Bill made three loops around the area and with the ship angled in a southerly direction towards the equator; the landing gear and the wings began retracting. In the blink of an eye, the craft disappeared into nothingness. And so his adventures begin. Written for young adults, Let There Be Light will appeal to adult readers as well. If you enjoy stories that mix together adventure, engaging characters, and the discovery of deep scientific truths, then Let There Be Light will offer you a chance to go on an adventure that will change your view of the world and its history.

Let There Be Light

J. Paul Getty Museum

Getty Research Institute

Getty Conservation Institute

In this volume, conservators, curators, and conservation scientists candidly reflect on the challenges and sometimes controversial choices involved in treating works of art.

Thoughts about Paintings Conservation : a Seminar Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, June 21-22, 2001

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