Le dérèglement du monde : Quand nos civilisations s'épuisent by Amin MaaloufMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Enlightening. Maalouf did an excellent job portraying today's world, both East and West, from cultural, ethical, religional point of views, staying in the middle with equal distances to every side. Although he emphasized in almost every other chapter that the opinions he was standing up for was solely and totally are of his own, between the lines, those were also the opinions he wished every human being had deep down.
I was especially impressed with the modern-day utopia he had built in the epilogue, an utopia where obviously he had wanted European Union to be the America of the old continent and America to be the America "everyone dreamed of". That these nations were obliged to design a whole new world order in order to survive. Where, once implemented, every other nation in the world would be willing to follow through because they would believe it really is for their own good. I'm not sure how much of it I would agree but that is a genuinely strong point of view that should be seriously considered.
In summary, it's an excellent book to read and know about the recent developments in the Middle East, West and Far East countries and to see the effects of the politics forced upon every third world nation by America and Europe.
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