The Small Nation Solution
How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems
By (author) John H. Bodley
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Publication date:
16 May 2013Length of book:
314 pagesPublisher
AltaMira PressISBN-13: 9780759122222
In The Small Nation Solution, eminent anthropologist John H. Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping nations small so as to limit the power of elite directors. It is a simple idea with profound implications. He spotlights successful small nations around the world as the best working models of sustainable sociocultural systems and shows how these diverse small nations can be the building blocks of a transformed global system that could save the world.
An optimistic antidote to media reports on the future for the planet. It provides a wealth of ideas for the not-so-inevitable fate of humanity. A wonderful read.