The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline - Softcover

We hear every day about all the perils and problems we face. Along comes this wonderful, intelligent, well-written book that tells us about all the solutions. Traveling around the world, Jonathan Tepperman has found countries that took on big challenges, from inequality to immigration, and found innovative solutions. This book will inform and enlighten you - and cheer you up (Fareed Zakaria, author of 'The Post-American World')

Readers looking for good news will love this book. Jonathan Tepperman makes a compelling case, in lively and personal prose, that strong leaders willing to forsake political orthodoxy for good ideas can actually solve the toughest problems the world faces. Governments from Brazil to Canada to Indonesia have successfully tackled problems ranging from inequality to immigration to radical Islam. All is not lost! (Ann-Marie Slaughter, author of 'Unfinished Business')

A refreshing and readable new way of looking at the world. Jonathan Tepperman combines old-fashioned reporting, storytelling, and social science to create a roadmap for solving today's great problems, from radicalism to inequality to political paralysis. Anyone disheartened by the current state of affairs should read this original, super-smart, and eye-opening book (Charles Duhigg, author of 'The Power of Habit')

Just when it looks like the world's problems couldn't get much worse, The Fix cuts through the gloom like a ray of sunshine. With storytelling reminiscent of Michael Lewis and a surgeon's eye for detail, Tepperman takes us on an eye-opening tour of the planet's local villages, cabinet rooms, and presidential palaces - where a few outstanding leaders have made real strides toward solving colossal economic and political challenges. if you care about understanding the world or improving it, this book is not to be missed. It may very well change the face of leadership (Adam Grant, author of 'Originals')

Despair no more. In this original and engaging book, Tepperman takes on the declinist conventional wisdom with insight and vigor. There are answers out there, he argues: all we need to do is look around, and learn. A wise and timely book (Jon Meacham, author of 'Destiny and Power')

Engagingly written . The Fix makes an acute point in its attempt to recover a lost sense of optimism (Financial Times)

The timing of this book could not be better . Smart and agile . A smorgasbord of small think: practical, microcosmic solutions to big problems in sometimes surprising places . Though the book is not long, Mr. Tepperman goes into impressive detail in each case study and delivers his assessments in clear, pared-down prose, careful to describe most of his success stories as experiments that could still fail. The Fix is not clip job either: Mr. Tepperman spend considerable time flying around the globe for his own research ... An invaluable handbook (New York Times)

'Tepperman searches for the formula by which [political leaders] have remedied serious problems. The cases are valuable in their own right . But for present purposes it is Tepperman's conclusion that is valuable: eschew ideology; focus on pragmatic solutions to core problems; adjust as you go, but be as tough as is necessary' (Times Literary Supplement)

Jonathan Tepperman is Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs. He has worked as an editor at Newsweek and as reporter, political-risk consultant and as a speechwriter at the UN. He has written for a long list of publications and appeared regularly in print, online and television media. He is the co-editor of The U.S. vs Al Qaeda: A History of the War on Terror (2011), The Clash of Ideas: The Ideological Battles That Made the Modern World and Will Shape the Future (2011) and Iran and the Bomb: Solving the Persian Puzzle (2012). He is Vice Chairman of the Halifax International Security Forum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Fellow of the New York Institute of Humanities. Born and raised in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, he lives in Brooklyn with his family.