Savage century : back to barbarism /
Therese Delpech, translated by George Holoch
- Washington DC : Carnegie Endowment, 2007
- xx 211 p.
First published in French as L'Ensauvagement: Le retour de la barberie au XXIe siecle : Les Editions Grasset & Fasquelle
One of France's leading strategic thinkers provides a broad view of the destructive carnage of the twentieth century then ponders whether this will be continued or repeated in the twenty first. Given that in the early years of both centuries peace and prosperity arising from greater globalisation were taken as near certainties perhaps there is more than a little room for concern that the current assumptions may too be wrong.