Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
Written by Nadav Eyal
Narrated by Kaleo Griffith
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""A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent."" —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
An eye-opening examination of nationalism’s spread around the world as the promise of globalism wanes
Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt. or simply unresponsive to urgent needs. Eyal illuminates the benign and malignant forces that have so rapidly transformed our economic, political, and cultural realities, shedding light not only on the economic and cultural revolution that has come to define our time but also on the counterrevolution waged by those it has marginalized and exploited.
With a mixture of journalistic narrative, penetrating vignettes, and original analysis, Revolt shows that the left and right have much in common. Eyal tells stories of distressed Pennsylvania coal miners, anarchist communes on the outskirts of Athens, a Japanese town with collapsing fertility rates, neo-Nazis in Germany, and Syrian refugee families whom he accompanied from the shores of Greece to their destination in Germany. Into these reports from the present Eyal weaves lessons from the past, from the opium wars in China to colonialist Haiti to the Marshall Plan. With these historical ties, he shows that the revolts’ roots have always been deep and strong, and that rather than seeing current uprisings as part of a passing phenomenon, we should recognize that revolt is the new status quo.
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Nadav Eyal
Nadav Eyal is one of Israel's leading journalists and a winner of the Sokolov Prize, Israel's most important journalism award. Eyal has been covering Middle-Eastern and international politics in the last two decades for Israeli radio, newspapers and television. With over 300,000 followers on social networks, he has been repeatedly named one of the country's most influential journalists. In 2016 he was widely credited for a series of short documentaries that explored the real possibility of a Trump victory. A winner of the British Chevening scholarship, he received as master's degree in global politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a LLB from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Eyal serves as the chairman for the Israeli Movement for Freedom of Information.
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Reviews for Revolt
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is probably best regarded as a memoir of the author's career as a journalist to date, which I mostly read to get some sense of how an informed foreigner regards the United States; though Eyal is concerned about much more than that. While much of this work deals with "globalism" as unfettered international business practice, where profits are made and the side affects of those practices are "externalized" (i.e. dumped on population being exploited), Eyal has bigger issues he wants to deal with. In the main, Eyal sees the current dysfunction as a result of he era of responsible leadership that followed World War II having passed away, and the successors not appreciating that the system is not a machine that will run on its own without attentive maintenance. Yes, the Cold War was afflicted with a string of lethal proxy wars, but, without getting too nostalgic, matters were kept in bound. What's clear now is that no bounds are really being recognized, and most of the world leadership is playing with fire. Though this book is not that concerned with COVID (the original edition having a publication date of 2018), that might wind up being the real wake-up call about the limits of identity politics and of unfettered nationalism.Going forward, what Eyal hopes for is a new commitment to a politics appreciating that collective problems do not take care of themselves, and a stronger sense of common decency in terms of handling communities that have been crushed in the gears of the increasing unsustainable world economic system; he realizes he's asking a lot.