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About the Author

Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director and a partner at Kissinger Associates, one of the world's leading strategic advisory firms. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he was Assistant Managing Editor of Time and worked in the advisory and banking business in China.

Praise for The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It…

"Thought-provoking....Ramo questions conventional thinking and provides fresh ideas-something we deeply need these days."-Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein

"A great read, a wondrous and unexpected journey through a world that keeps getting more complicated. Joshua Cooper Ramo has a brilliant mind and a beautiful pen, and both are evident in this stimulating book."-Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World

"The formula on display here - reported vignettes, grand theorizing, surprising juxtapositions - will be familiar to readers of Thomas L. Friedman and Malcolm Gladwell, and Ramo executes it with verve."
-New York Times Book Review

"Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges...Persuasively argued...[Ramo's] revelatory work argues that there must be some audacity in thinking before there can be any audacity of hope."
-Publishers Weekly

"[Ramo's] provocative new book...does a nimble job of showing how such theories shed light on the current political and economic climate while avoiding the worst pitfalls...[he] has managed, in this stimulating volume, to make the reader seriously contemplate the alarming nature of a rapidly changing world."
-The New York Times

"Thought-provoking...highly recommended for anyone who runs a business, is involved in international relations, or cares about our collective future."

"One can hope that Ramo's book may be one of the grains of sand that causes that much-needed avalanche."

"Sparkles with insight and imagination. You'll learn more about foreign policy from this text than you would in most university courses. Seamlessly fuses the bird's-eye and worm's-eye views to render a compelling picture of global security threats.



"[A] call to arms for smarter management of this increasingly complex world."

"Poignant, informed and optimistic."

"Full of engaging vignettes. . . [Ramo] uses his anecdotes to make some sharp observations."