Why do some nations recover from the trauma and other nations are unable to cope? These are questions Jared Diamond tries to answer in his newest book Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis published by Little, Brown and Company, 2019. Over the years, crisis therapists have learned why people do (or don’t) navigate crisis successfully. His thesis, as Gates said, is that the way individuals cope with crisis might teach countries how to cope with their national crisis. For example, the first step in resolving a crisis, for a nation or an individual, is the acknowledgment that a crisis exists.

Source: Philippine Star May 22, 2019 16:00 UTC