Countries have been the focus of power for over a century. Named by Le Monde as one of 70 people making the world of tomorrow, join novelist and essayist Rana Dasgupta as he argues American hegemony, Western debt, and the rise of tech firms as geopolitical actors have shattered a system many thought eternal. Looking back at the fall of ancient empires to the restoration of Chinese power, he argues we urgently need a new conception of power.
"Simply astonishing." — David Wengrow