La era de las revoluciones : Avances y retrocesos desde 1600 hasta nuestros días

Throughout modern history, revolutions have spurred freedom and progress, but they have also provoked violent backlash. In *The Age of Revolutions*, Fareed Zakaria traces an ambitious journey through the great transformative moments that have shaped the contemporary world, from the rise of liberalism to the instabilities that now threaten to roll it back. The narrative begins in the 17th-century Dutch Republic, the first modern superpower and a bastion of individual liberty, whose ideas spread to England with the Glorious Revolution. It continues with the French Revolution, an example of the dangers of radical changes imposed from above, and with the Industrial Revolution, the "mother of all revolutions," which propelled Great Britain and the United States to global leadership while sowing deep social and political divisions. Globalization, technological transformation, identity politics, and the return of great power rivalry constitute the great revolutions of our time. And they are already confronting us with enormous challenges. Faced with the rise of populist fury, the deterioration of democracies, and the threat of tribalism, the author issues an important warning: liberalism's great strength —liberating individuals— can also become its greatest weakness if its advance leaves behind a moral and social vacuum, because it is in that vacuum that reactionary movements thrive.