Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780198781660 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 232 str.

Ian Clark

Opis

As we approach the end of the twentieth century, a widespread interest in globalization is thought to be changing all economic, political, and cultural life. Ian Clark takes globalization--and its opposite, fragmentation--as the organizing theme for a grand retrospective of twentieth century international history. He argues that both globalization and fragmentation have ebbed and flowed throughout the century, governed by its great formative events: westernization, the two World Wars, the depression, and the rise and fall of the cold war. Globalization and Fragmentation sets out a challenging analysis of globalization, offering the most advanced and accessible introduction to twentieth century international relations.

Recenzje

Tension between integrative and disintegrative forces has already produced the post-cold war world's most significant fault-line. Ian Clark has written the best guide I've seen to these global tectonics and the upheavals we can expect from them. Required reading for anyone concerned with how the past is likely to shape the future.

O autorze

Ian Clark is Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.