The Hidden Globe

Sobre el libro The Hidden Globe de Atossa Araxia Abrahamian publicado por Random Usa al 2024:

Borders draw one map of the world money draws another. A journalists riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land and reveals how it became a haven for the rich and powerful. The map of the globe shows the world we think we know: sovereign nations that grant and restrict their citizens rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside its neatly delineated borders, however, a parallel universe has been engineered into existence, consisting of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, increasingly for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful. Atossa Abrahamian traces the the rise of the hidden globe to thirteenthcentury Switzerland, where