Universal foreigner : the individual and the world / / Robert W. Cox

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453736003321
• Autore: Cox Robert W. <1926->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : World Scientific Publishing Company, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 981-4452-71-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.092
• Soggetti: International cooperation; International organization; Political scientists - Canada; World politics - 1945-1989; World politics - 1989-; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; About the Author; Chapter 1 The Individual and the World; St. Augustine; Giambattista Vico; Teilhard de Chardin; Chapter 2 The Canadian Context; Chapter 3 Geneva; Chapter 4 Morse; Part I: The Middle East; Part II: Asia; The ILO and America's contradictions; Chapter 5 1968; The Soviet bloc; Latin America; The Soviet bloc again; Reflections; Chapter 6 Ambivalence; Tolstoy and history; ILO or Academia; The strange politics of international organization; Chapter 7 Transition; The US/ILO Crisis: Part one; Asia: The Cultural Revolution and the war in Vietnam; The US/ILO Crisis: Part two; Chapter 8 Thought and Reality Social forces in the making of history; Methods of analysis; Chapter 9 The 1970's; Corporatism in America; The multinational corporation; Global governance; The new international economic order; ILO again; Quebec nationalism; Chapter 10 The Emergence of China; Historical materialism; The Soviet Union; China in 1984; China and the world; Chapter 11 Civilizations and World Order; Consciousness and civilization; Harold Innis on civilizations; What are civilizations?; Comparison of civilizations: Synchronic and diachronic dimensions; Civilizations and global governance; Chapter 12 Synthesis Invitations to Lecture: Clarifying a Perspective on the World; Configurations of Power; A Plural World or Catastrophic Confrontation?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The book shows one individual's (the author) experience of the world, through contacts with government officials and scholars in the Middle East and Asia, Europe and Latin America during the post-Second World War years up to the later 1960's; and then that individual's reflections and study during the succeeding decades, up to and including the first decade of the 21st century, concerning the future of the world and the critical choices that confront the world both in inter-state relations and in maintaining the security of the biosphere.