Revolt

"A well-written and thought-provoking account of the currentcrisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation,but few will remain indifferent."Yuval Noah Harari, author ofSapiens An eye-opening examination of nationalismsspread around the world as the promise of globalism wanesRevoltis an eloquentand provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalismand populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modernglobalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the currentworld order is not so much about the imbalance between technologicalachievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it isabout a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow,corrupt. or simply unresponsive to urgent needs. Eyal illuminates the benignand malignant forces that have so rapidly transformed our economic, political,and cultural realities, shedding light not only on the economic and culturalrevolution that has come to define our time but also on the counterrevolutionwaged by those it has marginalized and exploited.With a mixture ofjournalistic narrative, penetrating vignettes, and original analysis, Revoltshows that the left and right have much in common. Eyal tells stories ofdistressed Pennsylvania coal miners, anarchist communes on the outskirts ofAthens, a Japanese town with collapsing fertility rates, neo-Nazis in Germany,and Syrian refugee families whom he accompanied from the shores of Greece totheir destination in Germany. Into these reports from the present Eyal weaveslessons from the past, from the opium wars in China to colonialist Haiti to theMarshall Plan. With these historical ties, he shows that the revolts roots havealways been deep and strong, and that rather than seeing current uprisings as partof a passing phenomenon, we should recognize that revolt is the new status quo.