A review by josephb8694
Governing the World: The Rise and Fall of an Idea, 1815 to the Present by Mark Mazower

4.0

I read this book with pencil in hand and found I couldn't stop underlining important insights and new understandings. Mazower leads you through the various stages of diplomacy, international relations and efforts to secure world peace and order from the Concert of Europe (1814) to the League of Nations to the U.N. to the present day. He covers not only how the major European powers interacted but also the emergence and contribution of U.S. involvement. The only disappointment is not learning much about Mazower's speculations about what be ahead in the 21st Century as China and India become global powers. The implication, as far as I can see, is the world will move into a new era of globalism, with a new superstructure replacing the UN, as technology, biotechnology, ecology, migration, trade and space become unignorable world issues.