Jared Diamond - Zűrzavar - Hogyan kezelik a nemzetek a válságot and a változást

In his previous books, Jared Diamond showed how civilizations form and then collapse. Now, as the world faces local and global crises, it highlights why some countries are better able to deal with massive turmoil. It takes the reader on a fascinating journey and shows how six countries (Finland, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Australia) have survived major disasters over the past two hundred years. He finds interesting regularities in how these very different, modern countries - all of which he has lived in - were built up from trauma. Looking ahead, he considers what the greatest threats will be in the future and examines the risk of the world squandering its natural resources and heading down the sad path to disaster. Is this our inevitable fate? Or can we learn from what happened in the past?
In addition to the historical, geographical, biological and anthropological aspects characteristic of all the author's books, Confusion shows the factors that determine how a country or a person can respond to seemingly superhuman challenges - the book thus becomes both large-scale and personal.

"My book on crises in the United States in May 2019
was published, and this Hungarian translation at the end of 2020. In other words, the timing was extremely bad. Or exceptionally good? I think it's bad because neither I nor anyone else foresaw the world crisis caused by Covid. At the same time, I can consider the timing lucky, because this way everyone can make sure that the system I introduced for analyzing crises can also be applied to a crisis that had not yet appeared when I wrote the book."
Excerpt from the author's foreword to the Hungarian edition

"A fascinating and instructive presentation of how countries
deal with crises - and hopefully help humanity to
deal with the current global crisis together."
YUVAL NOAH HARARI, AUTHOR OF SAPIENS