Moises Naim provides a compelling and original perspective on the surprising new ways power is acquired, used, and lost-and how these changes affect our daily lives.' -Arianna Huffington 'Naim produces a fascinating account of the way states, corporations and traditional interest groups are finding it harder to defend their redoubts. The End of Power will spark intense and important debate worldwide.' -George Soros 'After you read The End of Power you will see the world through different eyes. Readers will gain a new understanding of why power has become easier to acquire and harder to exercise. All those who have power-or want it-should read this book.' -Fernando Henrique Cardoso 'Moises Naim's extraordinary new book will be of great interest to all those in leadership positions-business executives, politicians, military officers, social activists and even religious leaders. The End of Power makes a truly important contribution, persuasively portraying a compelling dynamic of change cutting across multiple game-boards of the global power matrix.' -Washington Post 'This fascinating book.should provoke a debate about how to govern the world when more and more people are in charge.' -Foreign Affairs 'The End of Power will change the way you read the news, the way you think about politics, and the way you look at the world.' -William Jefferson Clinton 'In my own experience as president of Brazil I observed first hand many of the trends that Naim identifies in this book, but he describes them in a way that is as original as it is delightful to read. highly original, inter-disciplinary meditation on the degeneration of international power. Naim argues that leaders of all types-political, corporate, military, religious, union-face bigger, more complex problems with weaker hands than in the past.' -Wall Street Journal 'Analytically sophisticated. At a time when critics of overreaching governments, big banks, media moguls and concentrated wealth decry the power of the '1%,' Mr. Naim is a courageous writer who seeks to dissect big subjects in new ways.

' altogether mind-blowing and happily convincing treatise about how 'power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained.'' -Nick Gillespie, Barron's 'Moises Naim's The End of Power offers a cautionary tale to would-be Lincolns in the modern era.

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