Paul Tucker is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the author of Unelected Power (Princeton). He is a former central banker and regulator at the Bank of England, and a former director at Basel's Bank for International Settlements, where he chaired some of the groups designing reforms of the international financial system after the Global Financial Crisis.
A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year This is an important book. ---Martin Wolf, Financial Times Keynes famously said that policymakers are distilling the frenzy of past academic scribblers. [Paul Tucker is] the rare policymaker who goes on to become an extraordinary scribbler. ---Lawrence H. Summers, Bloomberg A book full of clever intellectual maneuvers ---Adrian Wooldridge, Bloomberg An important new book. . . . Global Discord is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the prospects for 21st-century geopolitics, and possible trade-offs facing the West. ---Vic Duggan, Irish Times Fascinating . . . [and] commanding book. ---David Westin, Bloomberg The book has extraordinary sweep and breadth of learning. It straddles the line between academic work and rigorous book for generalists. . . . Invigorating. ---Krishna Guha, Financial Times In a new book, Global Discord, Sir Paul Tucker . . . likens the relationship between America and China to that between Britain and France between 1688 and 1815. . . . The parallel is instructive because it is a reminder that the rivalry is one with which the world is likely to have to live for decades to come. ---Simon Nixon, Times We need serious strategic thinking about how the situation is changing and what to do about it. One of the few people earnestly engaged in that project is Paul Tucker. ---Juliet Samuel, The Telegraph Wide-ranging and erudite. ---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist A true tour de force. ---Jack Snyder, author of Human Rights for Pragmatists I learned a lot and can only applaud the breadth of vision and ambition. Bravo. ---Kevin Gardiner, Society of Professional Economists The great achievement of this profound and important book is that it offers a way of thinking about international politics that helps us to know what better decisions will look like. It might even assist some of those charged with making such decisions to do a better job. Books like this do not come along very often. When they do, one can only hope they are read as widely as possible. ---Paul Sagar, The Critic This is a lovely book. ---Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Climate Solutions Lab at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs, Brown University