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Yale. Edu. Book expo americas announced their selection for 2013. Stay uptodate by liking us on facebook, facebook. Com booktv, or followers on twitter at the booktv. You can also visit our website, booktv. Org and click on news about books. Up next on booktv, after words with lillian cunningham. This week, moises naim and his latest book, the end of power. He argues that power no longer lives with leaders of strong stable governments over the heads of large corporations. The former venezuelan minister says the potential for widespread of people is greater today than ever before. The program is about one hour. Host it is my pleasure to introduce moises naim for this episode of after words. You are a noted columnist on International Economics and globalization. You are also i a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and formerly editor of Foreign Policy magazine. And former trade minister of venezuela. So all that said, you have also now written a new book called the
To interview moises naim for this episode of after words. Umar a note to columnist, International Economics and globalization. You were also a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, and formerly editor of Foreign Policy magazine and former minister in venezuela. So, all that said, you have also now written a new book called the end of power and thats what we are here to talk about today. Lets start at the beginning. Which i think is how did you come to write this book and how did all of those various experiences and for what went into this . Guest delighted to be here. Thank you. In that introduction you encapsulated many of the by giving a lot of those things that you mentioned, i arrived at having that intuition about what was going on with power. We all know that power is shifting from the west to the east, north to south from a very Big Companies through startups and from people in the president ial palace is to people in the streets. We know that is happening i
In august of 2011, that is exactly what this was about, the harm the president s sequester would do to our military families. I cannot help but think about that mom whose husband is on his third or fourth deployment and she is watching all of this play out on the news and wondering whether or not she is going to be able to put food on the table, all while her husband is in harms way fighting for the freedom and liberty you and i enjoy. It is unconscionable what the president is doing. We cannot tax our way out of the sequester. We cannot tax our way out of debt. The president received his tax increase in january. It is time he got serious so we can reprioritize what matters most, providing Strong National defense. It is unconscionable for this president to use our military families as pawns in his crusade for higher taxes. I Mac Thornberry from texas. The federal government has to get its fiscal house in order by cutting spending. They have to defend the country in a dangerous world. W
Minister of venezuela. So, all that said you have also now written a new book called the end of power and that is what we are here to talk about today. Lets start at the beginning, which i think is how did you come to write this book and how did those various experiences inform what went into this . Guest delighted to be here and thank you. You encapsulated many of redoing all of those things that you mentioned, i arrived at having an instinct, an intuition about what was going on with power. We all know that power is shifting from west to east, from north to south and from very Big Companies to startups and from people in president ial palaces to people in the streets. We know that is happening in the world and that is nothing new but i detected that there was something more profound happening to power. Power was experiencing a stagnation that had to do with power meaning much less than it used to in the past, that people with power could do less with it that doesnt mean that they are