by Bill Emmott · Profile Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781781257357
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«The Fate of the West» is Bill Emmott's essay on the future of liberal democracy, published by Profile Books in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Facing global instability, states tend to close borders and concentrate power, as in Japan, France or Brexit. Emmott argues that this retreat and inequality threaten the stability the West brings to the world, and proposes openness and flexibility as the antidote, with reforms in education, welfare and automation.
The work carries the subtitle «The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea». This 2018 edition adds an update on Donald Trump's first year and Emmanuel Macron's election in France.
Aimed at readers interested in comparative politics, geopolitics and the future of liberal democracy, especially the rise of populism and nationalism.
William John Emmott is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary feature films. He was chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies from 2019-2025 and of the Japan Society of the UK in London from 2019-2024. He is now Senior Adviser, Geopolitics, for Montrose Associates, a strategic intelligence consultancy, a non-executive director of The Irish Times, a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, and an Ushioda Fellow at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. He writes regular columns for La Stampa in Italy, and the Mainichi Shimbun and Nikkei Business in Japan, and republishes the English originals of those articles on his Substack, Global View.
