After Nations
* Book: Rana Dasgupta. After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order.
URL = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/536696/after-nations-by-rana-dasgupta/
Review
Branko Milanovic:
"This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and in the last chapter, is to look to the shared future of humankind which would not be constrained by the system of nation-states. Dasgupta finds the current system incapable of dealing with the problems of human movement (migration), ecological challenges, and increasing wealth inequality. He believes that the technological power and reach of a dozen of mega companies will undermine the system from within and even put the survival of the species at risk. The solution lies in conviviality, mutual cooperation, respect for the nature, and the new relationship between individual, the state, God (religion) and the planet. These themes that belong to political philosophy are, as I mentioned, developed only in the first, and the last and rather short, parts of the book. I have no particular insight on these relationships and my review will follow a different course. I am aware that it might skip some of the ideas that Dansgupta and perhaps other commentators might find most compelling or important, but I think that the book is rich enough that it can sustain several possible ways to look at its main themes."