Formerly referred to as "the new world order", globalization has become the watchword of U.S. foreign policy. New sets of political, economic, strategic, and military relations around the world are being reshaped. ALTERED STATES provides the most comprehensive guide to a future "new world order", in which detailed analyses of specific national and regional situations are being shaped by a global view of a world with only one superpower.
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Warning against "a dangerously lopsided unipolarity" as a result of post-Soviet American hegemony, editors Bennis and Moushabeck ( Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader ) have compiled some 50 bracing essays from left-leaning academics and journalists. Though a few essays are ponderous, most are quite accessible. Marcus Raskin, calling for debate on the future of the CIA, exhorts the government not to "mistake paranoia for intelligence." Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad criticizes the United States's Middle East policy as a continuation of 19th-century colonialism. In an intriguing revision of some accepted wisdom, Mary Kaldor argues that the new nationalism in Europe is a consequence of the Cold War. Others offer uncommon insights: Tatiana Vorozheikina observes that Soviet internationalism has been replaced by an absence of Russian concern for the Third World; Joseph Diescho notes that the government of newly independent Namibia has had to collaborate with past economic exploiters just to survive. Though a few essays, like those on Haiti and Cambodia, are dated, the book is a salutary, if pessimistic, collection of warnings.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order (Hardcover)
With the exception of a few interpretations given to U.S. foreign policy and few opinions on where it should be going,this book hits the mark.Everything from enviromentalism to South Africa is touched upon. There's a category of essays about each inhabited continent, often with authors actually originating from the country they're writing about. While some light is shed on what the New World Order means for countries under that order,there's not much room for detail, considering the range of topics.Anyone who wants a good overall view of what's happening in the world around them should read this;this will help a lot.
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