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We know that power is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing. It is also decaying. Those in power today are more constrained in what they can do with it and more at risk of losing it than ever before. In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research, Naím shows how the antiestablishment drive of micropowers can topple tyrants, dislodge monopolies, and open remarkable new opportunities, but it can also lead to chaos and paralysis.
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Moisés Naím has been called "one of the world's leading thinkers" (Prospect Magazine) and has been ranked among the top 100 global thought leaders by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Switzerland. He is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an internationally syndicated columnist and a best-selling author of 14 books, including "The End of Power" and "Illicit". In 2013, "The End of Power" was selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the best books of the year. Naím recently published his first novel "Two Spies in Caracas" . In 2011, he received the prestigious Ortega y Gasset Journalism award and, in 2018, won an Emmy award for his television program "Efecto Naim". He was also the editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine for fourteen years. Under his leadership, the magazine won the National Magazine award for General Excellence three times and became one of the world's most influential publications in international affairs. Naím has served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry, director of Venezuela's Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He holds MSc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been professor and dean of IESA, Venezuela's main business school. He currently lives with his family in Washington, DC.
