Support Democracy Paradox on Patreon for bonus episodes and exclusive updates and information. He is the author of The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be and most recently, The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century. He served as editor in chief of Foreign Policy, as Venezuela's trade minister, and as executive director of the World Bank. Moisés Naím is a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an internationally syndicated columnist. The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be, written by Moiss Nam, discusses the decline of power in established leaders and institutions. An organization that essentially uses the structure, strategies, tactics, modalities of organized crime.Ī full transcript is available at or a short review of The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century here. And that is essentially that the state becomes an organized criminal organization. Inaugural Pick for Mark Zuckerberg's 'Year of Books' Challenge * Financial Times Best Book of the Year * Washington Post Notable Book * Washington Post Nonfiction BestsellerĪvailable Janufrom Hachette Audio as a digital download from Basic Books.But what we have now is something that has not been sufficiently discussed, sufficiently understood, which is a criminalized state of which Russia is an example, in the Balkans we have some examples, in Latin America Venezuela stands out as an example.

'A fascinating new perspective.Naím makes eye-opening connections.'-Francis Fukuyama In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naímilluminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. 'Compelling and original.'-Arianna Huffington change the way you look at the world.'-Bill Clinton The End of Power From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What it Used to Be By Moises NaimBasic Books, USA, 2013320 pp.

Drawing on provocative, original research and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, Naím explains how the end of power is reconfiguring our world. 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. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose. Power is shifting - from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. Naím argues power has eroded through the More, Mobility and Mentality Revolutions. The provocative bestseller explaining the decline of power in the twenty-first century - in government, business, and beyond.

The End of Power by Moisés Naím