"In short, flux is the order, or disorder, of the day: 'We are in a period of considerable trouble and crisis, rather as we were between the wars.'
"The tremendous dynamism of globalised capitalism is now outside the control of national governments, he says, yet there are no global authorities worth talking about."
David Rosenthal in The Scotsman observes Eric Hobsbawm's ninetieth birthday, and the publication of a new book of essays, by checking in with the famed historian.
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