Helen Thompson > Quotes

“Like its predecessor, the Second World War is inseparable from energy geopolitics.”
― Helen Thompson, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century

“Representative democracy has come to be perceived in Europe and North America as a stable and superior structure for collective political life. But representative democracies, like all other forms of government, are prone to becoming unbalanced through time as the geopolitical and economic conditions in which they were established change. They have also been historically reliant on an idea of nationhood that is as potentially destabilizing as it is necessary.”
― Helen Thompson, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century

“twentieth- and early twenty-first-century economic and political history is impenetrable without understanding what has followed from the production, consumption, and transportation of oil and gas.12”
― Helen Thompson, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century