In the first chapter of David Rothkopf’s “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making,” the author quotes Mark Malloch Brown, a British minister of state and former deputy ...

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Books on world elites tend to focus on the superwealthy, but political scholar Rothkopf (Running the World) has written a serious and eminently readable evaluation of the superpowerful. Until recent ...

Globalization has challenged the notion of the Establishment, that sixties concept of a small inner circle of politicians and businessmen who supposedly ran America. In Superclass, David Rothkopf ...

According to author David Rothkopf, both are members of the superclass — powerful elites who are reshaping the world. In his new book, “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making ...

Every January, Zurich airport plays host to a peculiar migration when around 150 Gulfstream private jets touch down. The superclass is arriving for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. If there ...

It’s not just trade and finance that are being globalized these days, it’s sheer power — the power of about 6,000 distinguished people to get big things done across national frontiers, says author ...

In Pakistan, almost everybody irrespective of the political and social divides is talking about how Pakistan is owned by only the elite class that is running the country as a corporate entity since ...