The world is changing ever more rapidly: while the Covid pandemic exposed paradoxes both old and new, climate change became the focus of international attention thanks to the ‘Fridays for Future’ movement, and reactions to the murder of George Floyd reignited debates about identity politics in Europe and the USA, Russia’s war against Ukraine highlighted more clearly than ever the lines of conflict between authoritarian superpowers in the East on the one hand and Western democracies on the other. In this major study, Andreas Rödder shows how the complex world in which we live became what it is today. What becomes strikingly clear is that in our accelerated, digitalised and globalised world, having a historical perspective on contemporary dynamics is vital to an understanding of the present day.

*‘A remarkable book: innovative, exciting and indispensable.’ - Ulrich Herbert, Spiegel Bestseller author

*The long-awaited update to the Spiegel Bestseller ‘21.0’

*‘21.0’ has sold over 20,000 copies

*Explains digitalisation, capitalism, climate change, identity politics, terrorism

*A highly topical analysis