Faced with the anguish and confusion about the direction of a rapidly changing world, this text situates, clarifies, and proposes future scenarios.

The world is rushing into a new, turbulent era marked by struggles between powers and classes. Accumulated resentments and changing power relations spur the challenge of authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China to Western hegemony. Meanwhile, in democracies, the discontent of the most disadvantaged classes gives strength to populists. La era de la revancha is a portrait of the genesis, interaction, and development of these currents that converge in a dangerous whirlpool.

«In times as confusing as they are turbulent, Andrea Rizzi enlightens us with the clarity and quality of his thought. La era de la revancha is a brief, realistic and humanistic essay with long coattails, an Ariadne's ball of yarn to map geopolitical labyrinths, unravel the networks that oppress us, and intelligently challenge the minotaurs." —Irene Vallejo

"Rizzi guides us through a unique and complex journey through a world where democracy and human rights are rapidly crumbling. This book isn't a simple essay on geopolitics, but rather a much-needed moral and philosophical reflection on our ability to shape and reform the world in which we live." —Pilar Bonet

"Andrea Rizzi, Global Affairs Correspondent at El País, is a studied veteran of the successive malaises that crack the door through which global misfortune emerges.” —Juan Cruz, Clarín

“Without understanding the combination of factors that have caused such a sudden change in the world order, it is impossible to embark on concrete actions that will have the necessary force to right what has been damaged. The journalist Andrea Rizzi has interiorized these changes and has captured them in La era de la revancha... With Dante as a teacher, and by walking those perilous paths, Andrea Rizzi bets on hope.” —Manel Manchón, Letra Global

“The formidable essay La era de la revancha, by the prestigious international El País commentator Andrea Rizzi, is written with clear, crystalline, and direct language. The book—undoubtedly one of the best I’ve read in recent years—articulates a sharp and well-documented foray into what we’ve been calling ‘geopolitics’ for some time, which is nothing more than the full understanding of the extent to which geography determines politics and all action from the public sphere.” —Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Huffington Post

“Inspired without a doubt by Gramscian thought that sought to position the optimism of willpower in the face of the pessimism of intelligence... After identifying the factors that have been fueling the contagious resentment that fosters the extreme right, Rizzi proceeds to invoke rebellion, encourage joining the resistance, and not fall into the comfortable trap of nihilism that excuses us from doing nothing if nothing can be changed.” —Elvira Lindo, El País

“Intellectual resistance is a form of political action. Andrea Rizzi practices this, always with careful prose and a head-on rejection of catastrophism without minimizing the challenges that lie ahead. In La era de la revancha, his intellectual resistance turns into a sharp and enjoyable tool for a broad reflection on the problems that he himself has been analyzing throughout his years of journalistic chronicling... With this essay, Rizzi jumps from the immediate sharpness of his articles to a deeper and more reflective focus, tackling the geopolitical and economic transformations of the recent decades... With a broad and critical perspective, the author doesn’t only examine recent events, but also delves into their structural causes and reflects on their positive consequences in the long term... His intellectual resistance becomes a compass that helps us understand the complex processes that shape the contemporary world.” — Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán, El País, Babelia