The Hidden Globe

This book did nothing less than make me re-see the world … Original, and very clever – Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland
In describing insidiously interconnected global regimes of inequality and injustice, Atossa Abrahamian boldly renews our sense of reality and brilliantly illuminates our political impasse. – Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger
Atossa Abrahamian is the ideal guide—fluid, sharp-eyed, and thoughtful—to this hidden landscape. – Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire
A revelatory look at a globe-spanning collection of “offshore jurisdictions,” “legal black holes,” and “free zones” … an impressive achievement.’ * Publishers Weekly *
Fascinating—reads like a novel yet packs a policy punch for anyone interested in global migration, licit and illicit corporate networks, legal fictions and realities … Read it, share it, and above all, reflect on the paradox that while we grapple with how to exert physical control over the digital world, we ignore the creation of vast new legal and physical spaces in plain sight. – Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, New America, and Professor and Dean Emerita, Princeton University
Abrahamian begins by delving into the histories of contemporary tax havens … but her scope is far broader … – Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED review
Sharply observed … Abrahamian unravels the opaque world of ‘special economic zones’ … Her well-researched, engrossing work manages the minutiae of several fields, including telecommunications, maritime law, and fine art, to stitch together a multilayered tale of how privilege works to protect itself. * Kirkus *
Vivid, revelatory … What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect – Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. The author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen and a 2024 New America National Fellow, she has worked 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.

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