{"product_id":"surviving-chaos-geopolitics-when-the-rules-fail-hardback-9781509575220","title":"Surviving Chaos; Geopolitics When the Rules Fail (Hardback) 9781509575220","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSurviving Chaos\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGeopolitics When the Rules Fail\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Leonard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509575220, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e 'Best Summer Books of 2026: Politics'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leonard engages with one of the key issues of the current era - the collapse of the 'liberal international order'. His book suggests that the west could learn from China, by abandoning the 'architects' striving for a perfectly constructed world order, in favour of an 'artisans'' willingness to make constant adjustments to changing circumstances.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGideon Rachman, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Leonard's writing always bristles with ideas and insight. His new book is both sweeping and granular, refreshing and realistic. Surviving chaos starts with understanding it, and Mark's book helps us do that.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Miliband, President of the International Rescue Committee, former British Foreign Secretary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSurviving Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e is yet another of Mark Leonard's brilliant books. In this chaotic world, he gives all of us a lucid analysis of what is going on, and clear policy recommendations on what we should do. Recommended reading for both the ivory tower and the engine room.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Stubb, President of Finland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Written with calm authority, this book stands out for its conceptual ambition and disciplined analysis. Leonard resists both nostalgia and fatalism... His strength lies in his ability to compare ways of thinking rather than merely cataloguing events... a book that sharpens how readers understand power, change and adaptation in today's international system.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJude Blanchette, Distinguished Tang Chair in China Research; Director, RAND China Research Center\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Leonard has written a highly readable and important exploration of the new world order... He gets beneath and beyond the myths and caricatures of all too much foreign policy debate. His insights into Chinese thinking should be essential reading for policymakers in the West, while the advice he gives to Europe is well worthy of our leaders' attention. For a book that is so short, he has a lot to say that deserves to be heard.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlastair Campbell, co-host of \u003ci\u003eThe Rest Is Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At a time when great powers and new actors are rewriting the geopolitical rules of the road, Mark Leonard's \u003ci\u003eSurviving Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e offers compelling ideas on where we are, where we're headed and what we can do to protect our common future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Bremmer, President and Founder of Eurasia Group\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An extremely absorbing, constructively critical, and heartfelt book. It offers a compelling way forward in this unordered world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eComfort Ero, President and CEO of International Crisis Group\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leonard is a force of nature, leading creative intellectual thought across Europe and globally for the past two decades. In describing a world of unorder, \u003ci\u003eSurviving Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e disrupts conventional thinking and forces us to reckon with the possibility that today's world may become a permanent state of affairs, not the transition from one order to the next that scholars have assumed. Leonard's analysis is as sharp as it is creative and captures the underlying drivers of this change—the exponential growth of the global economy, skyrocketing CO2 emissions, the rapid growth of computing power, and the mushrooming of the world's population—in today's geopolitics.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie Vinjamuri, President and CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark has looked at the world as it is now, not how we wish it to be. An honest, almost brutal analysis of the trends Europeans need to see with eyes wide open and equip themselves to either compete or witness a civilisational regression. Mark has this unique ability to tear down complexities and present the historical and contemporary explanations for the chaos that is revealing itself incoherently to most. A must read for anyone trying to understand this moment of transition from order to unorder.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHina Rabbani Khar, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in an explosive world. Trump is blowing up political order. Xi Jinping is scrambling the economy. And Putin is redrawing the map of Europe. At a time when every crisis bleeds into the next – from pandemics and wars to climate shocks and AI revolutions – the old rules of global order are collapsing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Leonard reveals how geopolitics is being rewritten in an age of 'Un-Order', where no one agrees on the rules, and even the concept of order itself is up for debate. Drawing on years of conversations with leaders and thinkers from Beijing to Washington, Leonard argues that we are witnessing a new divide in international politics between the grand 'architects' who try to build a stable global system and the nimble 'artisans' who adapt, improvise and survive amidst disruption. China, he shows, has embraced the artisan's mindset, while Europe and the West cling to the fading certainties of the architects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart analysis, part manifesto, \u003ci\u003eSurviving Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e offers a bold new framework for understanding power in the twenty-first century – and a call for leaders to stop defending yesterday's world and start learning how to thrive in tomorrow's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Architects and Artisans\u003cbr\u003e1. The Age of Unorder\u003cbr\u003e2. Embracing Change\u003cbr\u003e3. The Power of Connections\u003cbr\u003e4. Many Worlds\u003cbr\u003e5. From the Inside Out\u003cbr\u003e6. Adaptation, Not Control\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Europe’s Artisan Playbook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453516640536,"sku":"9781509575220","price":15.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509575220.jpg?v=1785285582","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/surviving-chaos-geopolitics-when-the-rules-fail-hardback-9781509575220","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}