'In 120 taut, thought-provoking pages, [Gamble] has sought to rescue politics from fatalism, to show that the iron cages in which contemporary elites have taken shelter are not iron after all, to confute the pessimism of the times by posing a challenge to endism in all its forms. The argument ranges widely and draws on a formidable range of academic literatures. But the nub is devastatingly simple. The endist project, Gamble argues, is fundamentally flawed. In different ways, endists all purport to show that the space for politics has vanished, or has at least sharply contracted. And that claim is itself political.' David Marquand, Times Literary Supplement 'This is a thoughtful book ... intellectually demanding without being technical. If as widely read as it deserves, Politics and Fate could restore public respect for political thinking.' Bernard Crick, The Independent "Gamble's prose is clear and supple, his targets well chosen, his arguments effective and well tructured and his optimism realistic and sober" Nicholas Rengger, St Andrews University, UK. International Relations Theory