The Strange Collapse of Globalism
and What it Might Mean Outside of the West

by

Dr John Ralston Saul

Dr John Ralston Saul is a Canadian author, essayist and philosopher. The Collapse of Globalism (2005), a critique of the international financial system, is his most recent work.

His first novel, Birds of Prey (1977) was an international bestseller. As an essayist, he is perhaps best known for Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1992).

Mr. Saul is actively involved with PEN, the organization that upholds freedom of speech for writers around the world.

Mr. Saul has earned two major literary awards: the 1990 Italian Premerio Litterrario Internazionale for The Paradise Eater (1988), and the 1996 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction for The Unconscious Civilisation (1995). Mr. Saul was also named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

He currently lives in Toronto, Canada.