The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian – why the nation state still matters

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World Author : Atossa Araxia Abrahamian ISBN-13 : 978-1529058338 Publisher : Picador Guideline Price : £22 Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a former editor at the left-of-centre US magazine The Nation and also worked at Al Jazeera America. She is now an independent journalist and author living in New York who, as her website puts it, 'writes about the cracks in the nation-state system'. Given her focus on the nation state and its problems, it's worth recalling in an Irish context the 1996 White Paper on Irish Foreign Policy entitled Challenges and Opportunities Abroad,…