The Chessboard and the Web Quotes

“Of the world's 175 largest nation-states and private firms, 112 are corporations.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

“On the other hand, the disconnection of millions of young people from the possibility of a decent education, a job, and a fulfilling life fuels rage and violence that spill across borders. Without positive connections to schools, jobs, families, and visions of their future, they connect to destructive causes that make them feel like part of a larger whole.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

“The first step toward persuading others is an evident and sincere willingness to be persuaded yourself.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

“Humans pursuing deep, complete connections respond to quite different incentives from those that influence self-interested utility maximizers. Rewards, monitoring, and punishments are less likely to be effective than engagement, communication, norms, socialization, identity, and common purpose. They share not out of a calculation of reciprocity but from a psychological pleasure in sharing. Those seeking connections make decisions from their hearts as well as their heads, influenced by emotion, fairness, empathy, and intuition. Their behavior, thoughts, feelings, and even personal attributes are highly socially contingent.
The range of humanity includes individuals who display every possible combination of selfishness and sociability.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

“Many network theorists note that human beings differ dramatically from the rational profit maximizer of social science theory. Neuroscientists exploring different regions if the brain, sociologists mapping an increasingly networked society, and entrepreneurial enthusiasts of the sharing economy challenge the highly individualist conception of the individual that many economists embrace. Instead of homo economicus, let s consider homo sociologicus, a person driven as much by the desire to belong and connect as by her individual goals.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

“Abram and Antonia Chayes even redefined sovereignty itself to mean not the right to be left alone but the right to participate in international organizations and networks.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

“Corporate anthropologist Karen Stephenson argues that though trust is the natural glue of human connection since prehistoric times, it is mostly absent in modern hierarchies—especially in government, where vertical silos compete with and undermine one another, often within the same bureaucracy.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

“influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

“building a network—connecting people or institutions in specific ways for specific purposes—is a far better starting point than a strategy of deterrence, cooperation, or coordination with another government.”
― Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World