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How to avoid the Third World War

THIS IS A BIG BOOK, ABOUT big ideas. At its core is a vision not only of how to understand the vast complexity of modern international relations, supranational political institutions, and global political economy, but how to stabilise it and make it work better.

Paul Tucker — a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and long-time member of the Monetary Policy Committee — is one of the very few people alive who could write such a work, blending as it does philosophy, political economy, international relations, and real-world experience of how major international organisations function. He has done so with remarkable success.

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