Billionaires bounce back, soup kitchen queues grow in Athens: State of the World Atlas author Dan Smith explores our current paradoxes.
Billionaires bounce back, soup kitchen queues grow in Athens: State of the World Atlas author Dan Smith explores our current paradoxes.
Today is publication day for the new edition of The State of the World Atlas. Author Dan Smith tells us about it.
Dan Smith is Secretary General of International Alert, based in London, and former Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). In 2007-2011 he was Chairman of the UN Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group. He is also author of The Atlas of War and Peace and The State of the Middle East. He was awarded the OBE in 2002, and blogs on international politics at www.dansmithsblog.com
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