Struggle and the Prospects for World Government rethinks the cold war and the social, political and economic development that followed the collapse of the Berlin wall. This essay cuts across all aspects of what is increasingly termed the "new world order". At the same time, The book establishes that free trade, nationalism, religious nationalism, and technology are emerging in combination as a post-cold war weapon system that can globally power the war between neoliberalism and neosocialism, individualism and collectivism, modernism and archaism, and universalism and particularism within a two-fold framework that includes, at one end of the spectrum, the institutionalization of transnational politics, and at the other end of the spectrum, the unionization of anti-corporate forces. These factors have combined to inexorably allow more prospects for World Government.
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Struggle and the Prospects for World Government rethinks the cold war and the social, political and economic development that followed the collapse of the Berlin wall. This essay cuts across all aspects of what is increasingly termed the "new world order". At the same time, The book establishes that free trade, nationalism, religious nationalism, and technology are emerging in combination as a post-cold war weapon system that can globally power the war between neoliberalism and neosocialism, individualism and collectivism, modernism and archaism, and universalism and particularism within a two-fold framework that includes, at one end of the spectrum, the institutionalization of transnational politics, and at the other end of the spectrum, the unionization of anti-corporate forces. These factors have combined to inexorably allow more prospects for World Government.
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Mark Arthur is Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development Research in Denmark. As guest lecturer at large, he has contributed to the development of corporate education in various fora.
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"...The level of structural differentiation and functional integration observed in the process of globalization shows the extent of its complexity and points to its universality and particularity at the same time. The new world order is still unfolding, and it is yet unclear what its final shape will be.
However, what is clear at this point in the staging of transnational politics is the cross-border movement of people, goods, services and capital investments, the repolarization of geopolitics that has already led to the emergence of three new economic blocks (the United States, the European Union and Japan), the universalization of the export led growth economy among other excesses of capitalism and imperfections of socialism, and finally, the reformulation of the world geostrategy in the direction of Brussels, Tokyo and Cairo as reflected by the enlargement of Europe (among other aspects of the EU project), the Far East Security Project (a regional security arrangement whereby Japan, a prominent Western ally will play key roles), and ultimately the war on terror, the Palestinian question and the disarmament of Iraq..."
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The Cold War's origins lie in the formation of the Soviet Empire, which was seemingly made possible by the abdication of Tsar Nicolas II, the installation of a provisional government, and most importantly, the seizure of power by Lenin in October 1927 and his declaration of the socialist order. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, Soviet Union, United Nations, Northern Ireland, Security Council, Berlin Wall, Third World, League of the Nations, World War, Soviet Empire, Bretton Woods, General Assembly, Great Britain, Korean War, Latin America, South Korea, Adam Smith, Dumbarton Oaks, North Korean, Soviet Intelligence Network, White House New!
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The Cold War's origins lie in the formation of the Soviet Empire, which was seemingly made possible by the abdication of Tsar Nicolas II, the installation of a provisional government, and most importantly, the seizure of power by Lenin in October 1927 and his declaration of the socialist order. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cold War, Soviet Union, United Nations, Northern Ireland, Security Council, Berlin Wall, Third World, League of the Nations, World War, Soviet Empire, Bretton Woods, General Assembly, Great Britain, Korean War, Latin America, South Korea, Adam Smith, Dumbarton Oaks, North Korean, Soviet Intelligence Network, White House New!
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- Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order by Jeremy Brecher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Northern Ireland: Conflict and Change (2nd Edition) by Jonathan Tonge in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conflict in Ireland (History 13-16 project) by Tony McAleavy in Back Matter
- A New World Order: Grassroots Movements for Global Change by Paul Ekins in Back Matter
- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville in Back Matter
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