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Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The twenty-first century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and democratic shocks. Their fallout has led central banks to create over $25 trillion of new money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition, destabilized the Middle East, ruptured the European Union, and exposed old political fault lines in the United States. Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century is a long history of this present political moment. It recounts three histories--one about geopolitics, one about the world economy, and one about western democracies--and explains how in the years of political disorder prior to the pandemic the disruption in each became one big story. It shows how much of this turbulence originated in problems generated by fossil-fuel energies, and it explains why, as the green transition takes place, the longstanding predicaments energy invariably shapes will remain in place.

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Helen Thompson is professor of political economy at Cambridge University. She is the author of Oil and the Western Economic Crisis; China and the Mortgaging of America; and Might, Right, Prosperity and Consent: Representative Democracy and the International Economy. Since 2015, Helen has been a regular contributor to the podcast Talking Politics and has written articles for the London Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Financial Times. Kitty Kelly is a narrator, voice-over artist, and actress from London, with a degree in drama and theater arts from the University of Birmingham. She also received professional acting training at Drama Studio London. Since graduating from drama school, she has narrated audiobooks for well-known publishers such as HarperCollins, Bolinda, and Scribd, plus independent authors. Her favorite thing about audiobook narration is being able to play the parts that she would never normally get cast as on stage. She loves creating distinctive voices that reflect the characters' personalities and has a good ear for learning new accents. Kitty has a naturally conversational and candid reading style, and likes to establish a sense of familiarity with the listener, so she began her career narrating chick lit, rom-coms, and romance. Thanks to her versatile sound, she now has a wider repertoire, including romantic suspense, historical fiction, mysteries/thrillers, memoirs, and kids books, and would love to try even more genres, particularly self-help books and teen fiction.

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