What is a crisis? Why do some countries successfully overcome its consequences, while others do not? And what is the mechanism for overcoming it? How did six countries - Japan, Finland, Chile, Indonesia, Germany and Australia - find themselves in a crisis situation and how did they recover from it? way out? There have been and will always be crises... Which country is next? Japan again? Or the USA? Or maybe the whole world? Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author for his book Guns, Germs and Steel, talks about all this and much more in his book.