If you are someone with the means and the network, you have the ability the hide, move, shield invest and otherwise utilize your money around the globe in a variety of ways that largely go against international treaties and conventional norms.

In this episode of Books in 5, the author of The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks The World joins us to reveal how the wealthy are creating a parallel system of special economic zones, charter cities, global detention centers and a number of other schemes to further their interests.

Through in-depth reporting and a comprehensive overview of the history of elites bringing the concept of "statelessness" into reality, The Hidden Globe is a must-read to understand how those at the top maintain their position.

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. The author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen and a 2024 New America National Fellow, she has worked as an editor at The Nation, an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, and a reporter for Reuters. She grew up in Geneva and lives in Brooklyn.

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