The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be

Interesting thesis, but it could have been said in 30 pages rather than 300. The writing is dull and dry. The examples are broad but the research is not deep. There are too many statistics and not enough stories. The evidence cited is shallow enough that the book is not convincing and the writing re......more

The End of Power by Moisés Naím has some problems, more on that later. But something fundamental bothered me about it the entire time I was reading it. After a few weeks of reflecting on it here and there I figured it out—it was the title. This book is not about the end of power at all, it's about t......more

A couple of weeks ago I saw a PBS NewsHour interview with Moisés Naím on his new book, THE END OF POWER, and I just had to read it. I did so this week. I found it to be a fascinating examination of the erosion of centralized authority in a broad pantheon of fields: government, finance, the military,......more

The End of Power starts like dynamite. Moises Naim, an extremely well-respected and well-informed author (he thanks everybody who's anybody in the acknowledgments except perhaps for David Beckham) is truly on fire to begin with. He starts the book by telling you what power is. He defines it as the ab......more

Moisés Naím (nascido em 1952) é um escritor e colunista venezuelano e, desde 1996, o editor-chefe da revista Foreign Policy. Moisés tem escrito muito sobre política e economia internacionais, desenvolvimento económico, organizações multilaterais, política externa as consequências na globalização. Esc......more