Ian Bremmer's J Curve is a visual tool that suggests why some
countries are in crisis and unstable while others are prosperous
and politically solid. The book explains: "movement from left to
right along the J curve demonstrates that a country that is
stable because it is closed must go through a period of
dangerous instability as it opens to the outside world". Click
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books in the Newsnight book club THE J CURVE: A NEW WAY TO
UNDERSTAND WHY NATIONS RISE AND FALL By Ian Bremmer From
STABILITY, OPENNESS AND THE J CURVE "Openness" is a measure of
the extent to which a nation is in harmony with the
crosscurrents of globalization - the processes by which people,
ideas, information, goods, and services cross international
borders at unprecedented speed. How many books written in a
foreign language are translated into the local language? What
percentage of a nation's citizens have access to media outlets
whose signals originate from beyond their borders