Video: Book Launch - Moisés Naím, The End of Power

The world is shifting; power is decentralizing and becoming more diffuse. Civil movements like Occupy Wall Street and KONI 2012 and technological advances such as social media, cell phones, and blogs are challenging, even undermining, the traditional structures of power and weakening leaders. On March 15, Moisés Naím of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international syndicated columnist, and Americas Quarterly editorial board member presented his latest book, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be. “My argument is not that power does not exist in the world anymore; my argument is that those who wield power have less of it and are more constrained in what they can do, that the range of options that they have is less than what their predecessors had,” he noted.

Speaker:

• Moisés Naím, author of The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be (March 2013)

Discussant:

• Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Moderator:

• Christopher Sabatini, Editor-in-Chief, Americas Quarterly and Senior Director of Policy, Americas Society/Council of the Americas