LEADER 03773nam 22006731 450 001 9910453736003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a981-4452-71-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001168294 035 $a(EBL)1578308 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000952414 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11541801 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000952414 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10905651 035 $a(PQKB)10990444 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1578308 035 $a(WSP)00008739 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1578308 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10813523 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL549560 035 $a(OCoLC)864743261 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001168294 100 $a20131212h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUniversal foreigner $ethe individual and the world /$fRobert W. Cox 210 1$aSingapore :$cWorld Scientific Publishing Company,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (390 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a981-4452-70-X 311 $a1-306-18309-X 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aChapter 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 327 $aChapter 12 Synthesis Invitations to Lecture: Clarifying a Perspective on the World; Configurations of Power; A Plural World or Catastrophic Confrontation?; Index 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aInternational cooperation 606 $aInternational organization 606 $aPolitical scientists$zCanada$vBiography 606 $aWorld politics$y1945-1989 606 $aWorld politics$y1989- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInternational cooperation. 615 0$aInternational organization. 615 0$aPolitical scientists 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aWorld politics 676 $a320.092 700 $aCox$b Robert W.$f1926-$0934301 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453736003321 996 $aUniversal foreigner$92103451 997 $aUNINA