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=== ''Upheaval'' (2019) === In ''[[Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change]]'' Diamond examines whether nations can find lessons during crises in a way like people do. The nations considered are Finland, Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Germany, Australia, and the U.S.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hughes |first=Ian |date=May 11, 2019 |title=Upheaval review: How countries seldom learn from their past |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/upheaval-review-how-countries-seldom-learn-from-their-past-1.3883396 |access-date=Sep 29, 2023}}</ref> Diamond identifies four modern threats: nuclear weapons, [[climate change]], limited resources, and extreme inequality.<ref>{{cite web |last=Martindale |first=David |date=May 9, 2019 |title=Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond to discuss new book, 'Upheaval,' in Dallas |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/books/2019/05/09/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-jared-diamond-to-discuss-new-book-upheaval-in-dallas/ |access-date=Sep 29, 2023 |website=[[The Dallas Morning News]]}}</ref> [[Anand Giridharadas]], reviewing for ''[[The New York Times]]'', claimed the book contained many factual inaccuracies.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Giridharadas |first=Anand |author-link=Anand Giridharadas |date=May 17, 2019 |title=What to Do When You're a Country in Crisis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/books/review/upheaval-jared-diamond.html |access-date=May 20, 2019 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> [[Daniel Immerwahr]], reviewing for ''[[The New Republic]]'', reports that Diamond has "jettisoned statistical analysis" and the associated rigour, even by the standards of his earlier books, which have themselves sometimes been challenged on this basis.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Immerwahr |first1=Daniel |author-link=Daniel Immerwahr |date=June 11, 2019 |title=All Over the Map |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/154142/jared-diamond-upheaval-book-review |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |access-date=June 12, 2019}}</ref>
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