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SUPERSTATES - ALASDAIR ROBERTS KARTONIERT (TB)

In this century  the world will conduct an extraordinary experiment in government. In 2050 
forty percent of the planet's population will live in just four places: India  China  the
European Union  and the United States. These are superstates - polities that are distinguished
from normal countries by expansiveness  population  diversity  and complexity. How should
superstates be governed? What must their leaders do to hold these immense polities together in
the face of extraordinary strains and shocks? Alasdair Roberts looks to history for answers.
Superstates  he contends  wrestle with the same problems of leadership  control  and purpose
that plagued empires for centuries. But they also bear heavier burdens than empires - including
the obligation to improve life for ordinary people and respect human rights. One axiom of
history was that empires always died. Size and complexity led to fragility  and imperial rulers
improvised constantly to put off the day of reckoning. Leaders of superstates are doing the
same today  pursuing radically different strategies for governing at scale that have profound
implications for democracy and human rights. History shows that there are ways to govern these
sprawling and diverse polities well. But this requires a different way of thinking about the
art and methods of statecraft.

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