Commanding hope : the power we have to renew a world in peril
For over three decades, Thomas Homer-Dixon has examined the threats to our future security, predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, social instability and wide political violence if humankind continued on its current course. In Commanding Hope, Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink.
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- ISBN: 9780307363169
- Physical Description 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Commanding Hope : The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril
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Table of Contents
Commanding Hope : The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Prologue: Our Own Story | p. 1 | |
Part 1 | The Necessity of Hope | |
1 | Signals | p. 11 |
2 | How About... | p. 26 |
3 | Fighting a Scarcity of Hope | p. 42 |
4 | So Our Souls Can Breathe | p. 55 |
5 | The Ways Hope Works | p. 62 |
6 | Imagine Possibility | p. 90 |
7 | Courage beyond the Edge | p. 115 |
Part 2 | The Challenge of Hope | |
8 | The False Promise of Techno-Optimism | p. 125 |
9 | The World to Come Today | p. 144 |
10 | A Contest of WITs | p. 166 |
11 | Why Is Positive Change So Hard? | p. 179 |
12 | Shock Cascades | p. 198 |
13 | A Message from Middle-earth | p. 208 |
Part 3 | The Path to Hope | |
14 | From Gondor to Washington, DC | p. 237 |
15 | Into the Mind | p. 251 |
16 | Hero Stories | p. 274 |
17 | Strategic Intelligence | p. 287 |
18 | Mindscape | p. 298 |
19 | Hot Thought | p. 321 |
20 | Renewing the Future | p. 331 |
Epilogue: The Battle for Tomorrow | p. 370 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 375 | |
A Note on the Book's Dedication | p. 381 | |
Endnotes | p. 383 | |
Illustration Credits | p. 427 | |
Index | p. 431 |