In this text, Richard Falk, an expert in the field of human rights and international relationships, maps out the way to a more just and human global society. In the modern world, borders are being erased, and democracy and capitalism are spreading. The world is rapidly changing, and these changes, Falk argues, are opening the door for the promotion of human rights to become an integral part of worldwide politics and law. The book aims to be accessible and clear, and presents a path to a humanitarian policy for the 21st century.

In this text, Richard Falk, an expert in the field of human rights and international relationships, maps out the way to a more just and human global society. In the modern world, borders are being erased, and democracy and capitalism are spreading. The world is rapidly changing, and these changes, Falk argues, are opening the door for the promotion of human rights to become an integral part of worldwide politics and law. The book aims to be accessible and clear, and presents a path to a humanitarian policy for the 21st century.

This work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the changing role of the state, the relevance of institutions, the role of individuals and the importance of the worldwide religious resurgence, with its positive and negative implications. He also considers the post-modern geopolitics of the Bush presidency, with its emphasis on the militarization of space, the control of oil in the Middle East,...

This work delineates the impact of terrorism - and the American response - on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the changing role of the state, the relevance of institutions, the role of individuals and the importance of the worldwide religious resurgence, with its positive and negative implications. He also considers the post-modern geopolitics of the Bush presidency, with its emphasis on the militarization of space, the control of oil in the Middle East,...

In this book, four distinguished scholars level a powerful critique of the rapid expansion of the emerging American empire and its oppressive and destructive political, military, and economic policies. Arguing that a global Pax Americana is internationally disastrous, the authors demonstrate how America's imperialism inevitably leads to rampant irreversible ecological devastation, expanding military force for imperialistic purposes, and a grossly inequitable distribution of goods--all leading to the diminished well-being of human communities.

Already highly acclaimed as a seminal analysis of the "New World Order," Professor Falk's Law in an Emerging Global Village clearly establishes a new arena of international law where three distinct historical forces meet and contend: the old Westphalian nation-state model, the global civil society as represented by international human rights conventions, and transnational market forces that pervade nearly every area of life as well as legal practice. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Explores the Complex Relationship Between International Law and Civil War The current rash of civil wars seems to result both from the vulnerability of so many states to domestic violence and from the willingness of so many other states to promote or exploit this vulnerability for reasons of ideological solidarity, political expansion, national security, or human compassion. Thus, the kind of civil war that is most important to the maintenance of international order involves the interplay of interventionary diplomacy and domestic instability. International lawyers are deeply divided as to the...