The World at 2000: Perils and Promises

ISBN-13: 9780333945346 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 170 str.

Fred Halliday

Opis

Beneath the millennial shine of political optimism and technological advance lurk a set of deep uncertainties: global inequality is growing; weapons of mass destruction are spreading; strident assertions of identity divide peoples and states; overall, there is a marked lack of effective co-ordination and reduced confidence in the power of people, ideas and democratic processes to achieve change. This important book by a leading observer of International Relations provides a critical but cautiously optimistic assessment of the state and prospects of the world at 2000.

Spis treści

Preface.- A World in Transition.- The Shadow of the Twentieth Century.- Arguments about World Politics.- The Recurrence of War.- Globalization and its Discontents.- The Fragility of Democracy.- An Unaccountable Hegemon.- Delusions of Difference.- Governance Beyond Frontiers.- For a Radical Universalism.

O autorze

FRED HALLIDAY is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and author of many books including Rethinking International Relations and Revolution and World Politics. A leading authority on superpower relations, development issues, the Middle East and IR theory he is a prolific lecturer and broadcaster.