{"title":"Series: New Left Review","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"contraventions-9781839761423","title":"Contraventions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the turn of the century, \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e has published a score of editorials on contemporary world politics, each departing from conventional positions. This collection brings together a selection of NLR's interventions in these years of US unipolarity and late-capitalist boom and bust, the War on Terror and the rise of China, the asymmetrical recovery from the financial crisis, and the fraught politics of the energy transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBookended by surveys reviewing the broader political-intellectual conjuncture in which the journal is publishing, they examine both the ideas and the on-the-ground operations of liberal-internationalist rule, from the Middle East peace process to the new cold war. The collection analyses the character of the EU and the record of Obama, the meaning of Donald Trump, and the explanation for Brexit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, it tracks counter-movements from street to ballot box, from the Arab Spring to Corbyn, Sanders, and Podemos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46848824967404,"sku":"9781839761423","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/513263482843.jpg?v=1759000231"},{"product_id":"who-will-build-the-ark-9781839767470","title":"Who Will Build the Ark?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWho Will Build the Ark?\u003c\/i\u003e, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis, and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in today's key disputes between Green New Deal supporters and proponents of 'degrowth'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a series of landmark texts first published by \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Herman Daly and Benjamin Kunkel discuss the possibility of an egalitarian, steady-state economy, while Robert Pollin warns against the worldwide slump 'degrowth' could bring and calls instead for a single-issue campaign—2 per cent of global GDP dedicated to the switch to renewable energy—as the swiftest solution to the emissions crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Fraser envisages an eco-socialist exit from capitalism's multifold crises, while Troy Vettese advocates eco-austerity and half-earth rewilding. Lola Seaton draws out the strategic implications of these contested perspectives, in a set of unavoidable 'green questions'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the realm of contemporary politics, Alyssa Battistoni writes on the dead-end of COP diplomacy, Cédric Durand asks whether energy shortages will derail the transition away from fossil fuels, and Thomas Meaney compares Green New Deal proposals to the pinched reality of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe world's major powers accept the likelihood of dangerous climate change, yet seem incapable of averting it. Can radical green models generate the social leverage needed to do so? Or, as Mike Davis puts it: Who will build the Ark?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46852693360876,"sku":"9781839767470","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/573733482843.jpg?v=1759160346"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/series-new-left-review.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}