Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus. Sculptor: Abolhassan Sadighi. Wikicommons/Mohammad Hossein Taghi. Some rights reserved.
Dürrenmatt’s famous play The Physicists (1962) relies on a key thesis: “Within the paradoxical appears reality”. This applies perfectly to Bertrand Badie’s must-read essay, New perspectives on the international order: no longer alone in this world, (2018) which constantly plays with multiple paradoxes in order to expose the reader to reality. The author humbly promises only “considerations full of common sense and aimed at re-examining our old political science”.
But this atypical book delivers much more: a strong wake-up call, an appeal to acknowledge that history has not come to an end and that the world has changed, so stop blocking out reality:
