Walter Russell Mead, “Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World”
Walter Russell Mead, one of the nation’s most distinguished foreign policy experts, visits Zócalo to discuss the themes of his latest book, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, in which he gives an illuminating account of the birth, the rise, and the continuing rise, of a global political and economic system that rested first on the power of Britain and rests today on that of the United States–and now faces a new set of formidable challenges. Mead argues that the key to the world-shaping …
