03359oam 2200529 450 991080984330332120190911112729.0981-4452-71-8(OCoLC)864898838(MiFhGG)GVRL8RFI(EXLCZ)99255000000116829420130221h20132013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrUniversal foreigner the individual and the world /Robert W. Cox, York University, CanadaNew Jersey :World Scientific,[2013]�20131 online resource (ix, 379 pages)Gale eBooksIncludes index.981-4452-70-X 1-306-18309-X 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 twoChapter 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 governanceChapter 12 Synthesis Invitations to Lecture: Clarifying a Perspective on the World; Configurations of Power; A Plural World or Catastrophic Confrontation?; IndexThe 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.Political scientistsCanadaBiographyInternational organizationInternational cooperationWorld politics1945-1989World politics1989-Political scientistsInternational organization.International cooperation.World politicsWorld politics320.092Cox Robert W.1926-1503483MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910809843303321Universal foreigner4096164UNINA