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Description: A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. SachsPresentation copy inscribed & signed by the author on the title page thus: "For Craig, Let's build a peaceful and sustainable future!Jeffrey D. Sachs" (the inscription has gone through slightly to the following Copyright page); Columbia University Press 2018 1st ed,253pp., text generally in decent order albeit with slight browning to pages & to the page extremities at the very top, side & bottom, spinevery slightly cocked, slight bumping & rubbing to board corners & to the top, bottom & sides of boards & spine, slight staining to thebottom left hand edge of the rear board, both boards are a bit marked & scratched, the dust jacket has very slight internal staining &browning, is rubbed at the bottom of the front & rubbed & creased at the top of the front, rear & spine, slight scuffing to the corners &to the top & bottom of the spine, both front & rear have some marks, scratches & indentations.Jeffrey Sachs' new book is a powerful statement of the most critical challenge facing humanity at this moment in history, namely thenecessity for countries to overcome win-lose attitudes towards one another and instead embrace a new and deeper level of internationalcooperation as the means for building a more just, peaceful and prosperous world.This book is deeply insightful in explaining clearly the crossroads at which the world now stands, and visionary in setting out how a betterworld based on closer international cooperation can be achieved in practice. It is also a devastating critique of the policies of Trumpand the Republican Party. It describes clearly how Trump’s America First policies are forcing the US and the world up a dangerouscul-de-sac, one that the world has travelled before with disastrous consequences. A must read!Jeffrey David Sachs (born November 5, 1954) is an American economist, academic, public policy analyst, and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor. He is known for his work on sustainabledevelopment, economic development, and the fight to end poverty.Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable DevelopmentSolutions Network. He is an SDG Advocate for United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 global goals adopted at a UN summit meeting in September 2015. From 2001 to 2018, Sachs served as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, and held the same position under the previous UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and prior to 2016 a similar advisory position related to the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight internationally sanctioned objectives to reduce extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015. In connection with the MDGs, he had first been appointed special adviser to the UN Secretary-General in 2002 during the term of Kofi Annan.Sachs is co-founder and chief strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger that has come under scrutiny from critics and was the subject of a book by the journalist Nina Munk. From 2002 to 2006,he was director of the United Nations Millennium Project's work on the MDGs. He is co-editor of the World Happiness Report with John F.Helliwell and Richard Layard. In 2010, he became a commissioner for the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, whose stated aim is to boost the importance of broadband internet in international policy. Sachs has written several books and received several awards.Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged.(£5.39/cole) Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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