Mark Malloch-Brown has had an unmistakably illustrious career, one that took him from London, as a journalist for The Economist, to the headquarters of the United Nations in New York and back to London in the highest offices of government. His career gave him a unique view of events over the past 30 years that have shaped our newly globalized world. This book is his attempt to make sense of those events, globalization generally, and the steps that we need to make to forge a new path in the 21st century. He argues that the major divide of the 21st century will be the divide between the forces shaping globalization, and the rise of nationalism that feels threatened by it.

Unfortunately he's only moderately successful in addressing his thesis - the book is filled with self important anecdotes instead of data-informed arguments, and reads more like a memoir than it does a policy prescription. In fact, I'd argue that this was his attempt at making a simple memoir larger than himself. While absolutely interesting, he would have been better served dedicating the book to a single focus instead of trying to straddle two.

Nonetheless, I'd recommend it for people trying to grasp globalization. Few people have had a window into world events that Sir Malloch-Brown has.

Interesting but too heavy on anecdotes - an uneasy mix of personal memoir and ideology.

More a rehash of the past than I was expecting, and not much roadmap for the future.