Would you like to give your loved ones the most precious gift imaginable, but don t even want to think about planning your own funeral? Do you find wills, trusts, and life insurance nearly as daunting as death itself? Are you too busy living to think about dying? If so, this book is for you.

Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individual insecurities. This book takes a critical look at three key areas - globalism, nationalism, and state-terror - to confront common mythologies and identify the root causes of the problems we face. Too many commentators still argue that globalization is predominantly a neo-liberal economic phenomenon; that nation-states are on the way out, and that terror is something that primarily comes from below. Global Matrix exposes the limitations of this...