it really took a while for a whole host of books to come out by a bonnie, farid zakaria and others were now i think we have started to some of these things. is a bit lonely early on and you were there for me so i really appreciate it. now, you can only write a book titled "how to run the world" if you are crazy or if you are writing about exactly one thing in one word, and that word is diplomacy. you are not allowed to write it look on "how to run the world" if you are writing about war and conquest and so forth. that would be how to rule the world and a lot of people confuse the two titles but i explicitly called it that for a reason. diplomacy is the one word answer to how you run the world. running is the operative word. is about operation, but a system. is about management. war and conquest, we all see how far that gets us and where it gets us and where we wind up. what we do today falls very short. is crisis management. is ad hoc committees responding. is a world that feels like it is not too big to fail. a world of financial crises, failing states, commodities price spikes, resour