This book contends that the forces of late modernism are being caught between a capital-driven globalization and a territorially rooted revival of tribalism and ultra-nationalism. Its critical focus is on global structures that are producing new patterns of North/South and rich/poor domination, as well as exerting dangerous pressures on the carrying capacities of the planet.Richard Falk argues that any hopeful response to these threatening developments requires the fundamental revision of such basic ideas as sovereignty, democracy, and security. These organizing conceptions of political life are being reshaped during this era of transition from a state-centric world of geopolitics to a more centrally guided world of geogovernance. He contends that geogovernance will have adverse consequences for the human condition unless it can be mainly constructed by transnational democratic forces animated by a vision of humane governance. This volume was written for the Global Civilization Project of the World Order Models Project (WOMP), an international group of scholars formed to think creatively about legal and political structures adequate to the needs of the modern world.
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Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is a recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize. Among his most recent publications are Explorations at the Edge of Time: The Prospects for World Order (Temple, 1992), Revitalizing International Law (Iowa State, 1989), and Revolutionaries and Functionaries: The Dual Face of Terrorism (Dutton, 1988).
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inhumane governance, transnational democratic forces, triple indictment, postmodern geopolitics, democratic social forces, realist mindset, geopolitical leadership, interventionary diplomacy, transnational social forces, statist forces, geopolitical actors, world order values, citizen pilgrims, global apartheid, transnational initiatives, traditional democracy, defensive defense, transnational democracy, normative project, global civil society, normative horizons, territorial supremacy, global market forces, global polity, sustainable human development Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Nations, Security Council, Gulf War, World Court, Soviet Union, South Africa, General Assembly, East Europe, Secretary General, Universal Declaration, World Bank, Human Development Report, Latin America, Saddam Hussein, Eastern Europe, Advisory Opinion, North America, Stockholm Initiative, George Bush, United Kingdom, Middle East, North Korea, South Korea, Ayatollah Khomeini New!
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inhumane governance, transnational democratic forces, triple indictment, postmodern geopolitics, democratic social forces, realist mindset, geopolitical leadership, interventionary diplomacy, transnational social forces, statist forces, geopolitical actors, world order values, citizen pilgrims, global apartheid, transnational initiatives, traditional democracy, defensive defense, transnational democracy, normative project, global civil society, normative horizons, territorial supremacy, global market forces, global polity, sustainable human development Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Nations, Security Council, Gulf War, World Court, Soviet Union, South Africa, General Assembly, East Europe, Secretary General, Universal Declaration, World Bank, Human Development Report, Latin America, Saddam Hussein, Eastern Europe, Advisory Opinion, North America, Stockholm Initiative, George Bush, United Kingdom, Middle East, North Korea, South Korea, Ayatollah Khomeini New!
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- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington on 4 pages
- International Law by Richard A. Falk in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- World Orders Old and New by Noam Chomsky in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie on page 65, page 66, and page 68
- One World, Many Worlds: Struggles for a Just World Peace (Explorations in Peace and Justice: New Perspectives on World Order) by R. B. J. Walker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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