Gwynne Dyer is cheering up. Sure, the past decade has had more than its share of stupid wars, obsessions about terrorism, denial about climate change, rapacious turbo-capitalism, and lies, lies, lies. But signs of progress actually do abound. While the world is far from perfect as we embark on a fresh decade, Dyer believes that the "sense of sliding out of control towards ten different kinds of disaster has gone." When things go wrong it’s always easy to pin blame — but singling out the forces that lead to positive change can be trickier.

In this illuminating collection of columns from the last five years, Gwynne Dyer ferrets out the signs of hope — without overlooking the issues that remain seemingly intractable. Mining the events of recent history, Dyer contextualizes the recent past and anticipates what the future might have in store. This journalist’s beat is global: from Africa to South America, from Europe to the Middle East, and any other region with a political pulse.

Acerbic and iconoclastic, Dyer has never been afraid to call ’em like he sees ’em — and we are all the better for his trademark candour and the breadth of his knowledge and expertise. For anyone seeking to understand the larger forces that shape our society and our world, Crawling from the Wreckage makes for necessary reading.


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Introduction
 
1. Nowhere to Go but Up
2. Afghanistan
3. Climate I
4. Religion I
5. Israel-Palestine I
6. Miscellany I
7. Terrorism I
8. South Asia
9. Iraq I
10. The Post-Soviet Space
11. Iran
12. Africa
13. Oil
14. China
15. How War Works in the Middle East
16. Europe
17. Nukes
18. Of Time and Human Nature
19. Terrorism II
20. The Old Dominions
21. Iraq II
22. Climate II
23. Demography in Action
24. Religion II
25. Latin America
26. Miscellany II
27. Southeast Asia
28. Israel-Palestine II
29. Disaster Politics
30. Japan
31. The International Rule of Law
32. Crawling from the Wreckage
 
Index


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GWYNNE DYER was born in Newfoundland and entered the Canadian navy at seventeen. He has served in the Canadian, British and American navies. He holds a Ph.D. in war studies from the University of London, has taught at Sandhurst and served on the Board of Governors of Canada’s Royal Military College. Dyer writes a syndicated column that appears in more than 150 newspapers around the world. He lives in England with his wife and children.


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