The Coming Storm

Fluently written and wide-ranging … Westad sees danger in the mix of volatile personalities, changing power relationships and emerging technologies – Bill Emmott * Financial Times *Westad brings so much erudition, intelligence, and insight to the table. This is a short book on a big subject that will make you think long after you put it down – Fareed ZakariaThe assessment of the many ways in which the great powers of a hundred years ago went so wrong offers an antidote to the entrenchment and paralysis of imagination that pave the way for the next conflagration … Westad performs an urgent and inestimable service – Elizabeth D. Samet * Foreign Affairs *Westad guides us expertly through this current global disorder and its dangers – Ian Hughes * Irish Times *The Coming Storm seeks to make of the current geopolitical chaos by drawing parallels between now and the years before 1914 … his comparisons are always thought-provoking and often accurate – Jonathan Boff * Spectator *All the terrible pieces seem to be falling into place … The Coming Storm is an important book. The writing is clear and concise and the history is critical – Sean Durns * Providence *A passionate and informed warning about the very real prospects today for Great Power war in light of the origins of World War I – Charles S. Maier

Odd Arne Westad is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. An acclaimed scholar of modern international and global history, he is a fellow of the British Academy and Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His previous books include The Cold War, which won the Bancroft Prize, Restless Empire, winner of the Asia Society Book Award, and with J. M. Roberts, The Penguin History of the World.

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