The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Borders draw one map of the world; cash attracts one other. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has turn into a haven for the wealthy and highly effective.
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is an intrepid journalist whose intensive writing on the cracks within the nation-state system has appeared in every single place from The New York Instances and the New York Overview of Books to the London Overview of Books and different publications.
Now, her newest e book, The Hidden Globe (Riverhead Books), will perpetually change the way you understand the world through which we dwell, work, journey, and are ruled. We might imagine we exist inside clearly divided nation-states, however Abrahamian exposes the various locations the place this notion is extra fiction than actuality.
A globe reveals the world we expect we all know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or prohibit their residents’ rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, nonetheless, one other universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of 1000’s of extraterritorial zones that function largely autonomously, and more and more for the good thing about the wealthiest people and firms.
From Switzerland to Singapore, Honduras to Dubai, Mauritius to Laos, the Arctic to outer house, Abrahamian guides readers by the particular financial zones that prop up world commerce, the oceans the place ships sail flags of comfort typically belonging to landlocked international locations, the micro-states rewriting the legal guidelines of outer house, and the polar archipelagos that redefine the thought of nationwide sovereignty.
Combining historical past, political evaluation, and authorized idea with on-the-ground reporting and profiles of a colourful assortment of consultants, businessmen, theorists, legal professionals, and ideologues, she reveals how greed, idealism, and opportunism drove the invention of radically new types of political and financial house.
The e book has already obtained a lot reward.
“A season of unrest looms forward, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished fact in a luminous feat of reportage.” — Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Sharply noticed descent into the labyrinth of finance and semantics with which nations and the superrich safe their wealth … A multilayered story of how privilege works to guard itself.” — Kirkus Critiques
“A revelatory have a look at a globe-spanning assortment of ‘offshore jurisdictions,’ ‘authorized black holes,’ and ‘free zones’ … Abrahamian begins by delving into the histories of up to date tax havens … however her scope is way broader … a powerful achievement.” — Publishers Weekly, starred assessment
The Hidden Globe gives important context for headline information about globalization, deportation, worldwide cash laundering, and cryptocurrency. And with a lot of the political discourse across the upcoming American presidential election framed as a face-off between nationalism and globalism, Abrahamian astutely highlights the diploma to which nationalism shouldn’t be globalism’s binary reverse however somewhat regardless of the rhetoric, is profoundly entwined with and dependent upon it.
In regards to the Creator:
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Instances, New York journal, the London Overview of Books, and different publications. The writer of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the International Citizen and a 2024 New America Nationwide Fellow, she has labored as an editor at The Nation, an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, and a reporter for Reuters. She grew up in Geneva and lives in Brooklyn.
Publish Date: October 8, 2024
Style: Enterprise, Historic
Creator: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Web page Depend: 336 pages
Writer: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 978-0593329856