Global: An Extraordinary guide for ordinary heroes

by Lyla Bashan

It’s a big world out there, and it needs your help. Global poverty, social inequality. Famine, conflict and climate change. These are just some of pressing challenges we face, and why we need you to turn your passion for social justice into a global career of conscience. This extraordinary guide will help you learn how the international system works, the key problems and players, and how to kick-start your do-gooder career. Whether you’re a budding diplomat, an aspiring international development expert or anything in between, this is a must-read book for the changemakers of tomorrow. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to social justice causes.

302 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 8, 2017

About the author

Lyla Bashan serves in the U.S. diplomatic corps for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Over the course of her nearly two decade career in international affairs she has crisscrossed the globe, living in Armenia, Tajikistan, and Guatemala and working throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Working for USAID, the Department of State, and non-governmental organizations, she has committed her career to being an ordinary hero and strives to help others to do so too.

Reviews

[Michael Andrews Bashan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gives such a great foundation to better understand our complex, interconnected globe. There were many things included in this book that I already knew, but the author builds connection and context so clearly as to help me see and grasp the global ecosystem as a whole so much better than I ever have.

The other thing I appreciated so much about this book is how it's motivation seems to almost completely lie in outlining the global systems and issues at play in the 21st century. There is no panacea offering, no apocalyptic doom warning, just simply, "here is, in the plainest language possible, how our globe functions and how you can be involved." This left me feeling like the author respected my intelligence as a reader.