He was a professor of business and economics and dean of IESA, Venezuela’s main business school and also taught at John Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington. Naím’s experience in public service includes his tenure as Venezuela’s Minister of Trade and Industry in the early 1990s, director of Venezuela’s Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He is also the host and producer of Efecto Naím, an Emmy-winning weekly television program on international affairs that airs throughout the Americas on DirectTV (NTN24). The British magazine Prospect named him one of the world’s leading thinkers in 2013, and for several years the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Switzerland ranked him among the top 100 global thought leaders. In 2011, Naím was awarded the Ortega y Gasset prize, the most prestigious award in Spanish journalism. In 2018, he published his first novel “ Two Spies in Caracas”. His earlier book, “ Illicit” continues to be widely cited for its pioneering analysis of the globalization of transnational criminal networks. His 2013 book, “ The End of Power”, a New York Times bestseller, was selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the best books of the year upon release. He is author of many scholarly articles and more than ten books on international economics and politics.

During his tenure, Foreign Policy won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence three times. Naím was the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine for fourteen years. Naím might overstate the significance of this change, but his book should provoke a debate about how to govern the world when more and more people are in charge.Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a best-selling author and an internationally syndicated columnist. New technologies and novel social groupings have allowed inventors, activists, terrorists, and many other types of people to exercise more influence. What Naím shows, rather, is that power now manifests itself in new ways and places. This much is convincing, but the argument that power itself is slipping away or disappearing is less so. But he argues that the ability of elites to use their assets to influence and shape the world has dissipated. He acknowledges that wealth is now more concentrated than ever in the hands of elites and the institutions they control. Naím focuses on the flagging ability of large organizations-government ministries, corporations, militaries, churches, educational and philanthropic foundations-to get their way. In this fascinating book, Naím makes the more provocative claim that power is, in fact, declining.

It has become commonplace to observe that power is shifting: from states to nonstate actors, from institutions to networks, and so on.

The End of Power by Moisés Naím