Wilful Blindness and The Concentration of Power (Trade Paperback)
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Corr presents an engaging interdisciplinary history of the steady rise and concentration of power from the ancient world to the global present, and a new model to defeat the one-way ratchet toward oppressive hierarchy by building the diffusion of power and protecting the diversity of human politics. This sweeping study belongs next to Niall Ferguson and Jared Diamond in our understanding of how the world works and how it can work better.
James Kraska, Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School
“Dr. Corr skillfully weaves an intricate, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding hierarchies and, in-turn, the evolution of global hegemonic power. This study combines anthropology, grand strategy, and a skillful view of the 21st century’s power politics to discover the world’s newest battlefields. A must-read for legislators, military strategists, leading academics, regulators, and anyone interested in the existential threat that the concentration of economic, political, and informational power in an illiberal country like China creates for the leading democracies of the world.”
Kyle Bass, Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
“Dr. Anders Corr offers a deeply-researched theory to explain the increasing concentration of power in large, often repressive polities like China and Russia. He draws convincingly on social science research and a wealth of historical data to explain how the world has reached its increasingly illiberal moment, and why the ‘End of History’ envisioned after the Cold War turned chimerical. Readers need not agree with all of Dr. Corr’s assertions or analysis to benefit from his erudite and realistic appraisal of 21st century power politics.”
Alexander B. Gray, Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC); former Deputy Assistant to the President & Chief of Staff, White House National Security Council