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Chapter 1 The “One Big Thing” Quintet & Co

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Introduces main contributors to the genre of global future scenarios, since the end of the Cold War and the growing awareness of globalization, and their most important writings. The authors discussed include Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Friedman, Robert Kaplan, Paul Kennedy, Benjamin Barber, Joseph Nye, Timothy Garton Ash and Niall Ferguson.

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Hannerz, U. (2016). Chapter 1 The “One Big Thing” Quintet & Co. In: Writing Future Worlds. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31262-0_2

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