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　　It is, as Chris Patten notes, a funny old world. And it seems

to be getting funnier by the day. The global triumph of liberal

democracy, with the world made in America and Europe's image, has

failed to materialize. What will take its place? Here Patten draws

on his many years at the highest levels of international affairs to

tackle the big questions of our time - from energy shortages to the

arms trade, immigration to the ascendancy of the East - offering a

wise, witty and surprisingly optimistic account of the world

today.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1 Funny Old World

2 The Journey So Far

3 Les Big Macs and the Crash

4 Skies of Flame

5 Mushroom Clouds

6 A Hundred Million Rifles

7 Greed, Conflict and the 'Bottom Billion'

8 Blood and Water

9 Stuff Happens

10 Hooked

11 Filling the Tank

12 Hotting up

13 Coughs and Sneezes

14 'Let Freedom Ring'

15 And So...

Notes

Index

　　Chris Patten is currently co-Chair of the International Crisis

Group, on the Anglo-Indian Round Table, and Chancellor of Oxford

and Newcastle Universities. As a British MP 1979-92 he served as

Minister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for the

Environment and Chairman of the Conservative Party, being described

afterwards as 'the best Tory Prime Minister we never had'

(Observer). He is well known for being the last Governor of Hong

Kong 1992-97, about which he wrote in East and West (1998). Both

that and his most recent book, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths

about World Affairs (2005), were No 1 international best-sellers.

He was made a Companion of Honour in 1998 and a life peer in

2005.

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　　'Chris Patten is the best foreign secretary Britain never had

... Every thinker on, or practitioner of, international affairs

will profit from reading any book that Patten writes on foreign

policy' - Denis Macshane, Independent 'Exquisitely written ... he

is an eloquent and wise voice in a cacophonous world' - Lionel

Barber, Financial Times 'An extremely impressive book. It is a very

long time since a leading British politician produced anything so

ambitious, or as well written.' - Guardian, John Gray

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It is, as Chris Patten notes, a funny old world. And it seems to be getting funnier by the day. The global triumph of liberal democracy, with the world made in America and Europe's image, has failed to materialize. What will take its place? Here Patten draws on his many years at the highest levels of international affairs to tackle the big questions of our time - from energy shortages to the arms trade, immigration to the ascendancy of the East - offering a wise, witty and surprisingly optimistic account of the world today.