LEADER 05101nam 22005773u 450 001 9910787780903321 005 20210107000151.0 010 $a1-280-16515-4 010 $a1-135-93914-4 010 $a0-203-48556-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000491229 035 $a(EBL)182875 035 $a(OCoLC)475897799 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC182875 035 $a(PPN)198451784 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000491229 100 $a20131216d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 14$aThe Declining World Order$b[electronic resource] $eAmerica's Imperial Geopolitics 210 $aHoboken $cTaylor and Francis$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-94692-1 327 $aCover; The Declining World Order: America's Imperial Geopolitics; Copyright; Introduction; Acknowledgment; Contents; Part One Structures, Actors, and Agency; Chapter 1 The Future of the State and State System; Revisiting Westphalia; Westphalian Benchmarks; The Post-Westphalian Perspective; The Prescriptive Imperative; Some Empirical Observations; Four Post-Westphalian Dead Ends; The Global Marketplace; World Government; Global Village; Global Empire; The Post-Westphalia Prospect in the Early Twenty-First Century; Noting the Historical Moment of Lost Opportunity 327 $aThe Campaign for Global DemocracyInternational Criminal Court; A Global Peoples Assembly; The International Rule of Law; September 11: Disruption or Derailment?; Achieving Humane Regionalism; A Concluding Note; End notes; Chapter 2 Regionalism; Background Considerations; Globalization and Regionalism: After the Cold War and September 11; Post-Cold War Strategic Interests; Positive and Negative Regionalism; Containing Negative Globalism via Regionalism; Containing Empire-Building; Mitigating Pathological Anarchism; Promoting Positive Globalism; Promoting Positive Regionalism; A Concluding Note 327 $aReferencesChapter 3 Global Institutions; Identifying the Challenge; The Institutions of Global Economic Governance; A World of Regions? A Foreign Policy Calculus; The United Nations: A Crisis of Confidence; A Concluding Note; Chapter 4 Global Civil Society; Engaging the Project; The Politics of Language; Responding to Economic Globalization; Toward Responsible Global Capitalism: A Plea for Normative Democracy; Globalization-from-Below and the State: A Decisive Battle; Conclusion; References; Part Two Normative Contours; Chapter 5 Toward Global Justice; The Changing Global Context 327 $aThe September 11 AttacksImplementing Accountability Norms: Options and Mechanisms; The Role and Nature of Historic Injustices; The Centrality of the Holocaust; Asia/Pacific Redress; Redress for Indigenous Peoples; Reparations for Slavery; Political Crimes of State; Modalities of Response; Criminal Trials: National and International; Civil Litigation and Economic Reparations; Truth and Reconciliation Commissions; Humanitarian Diplomacy; The Promise of the Future: Finding Hope; Toward an International Criminal Court; Toward a Palestinian State; Toward a Global Peoples Assembly 327 $aA Concluding NoteReferences; Chapter 6 Religious Resurgence; Points of Departure; Narrating the Interplay of Religion and Politics: The Emergence of Modernity; Current World Order Trends, or Pathways to Inhumane Governance; Normative Appraisal from the Perspective of Global Governance, or Why ""Inhumane?""; Why Religion? Openings and Regressions; Religious Pillars of Humane Global Governance; Religion and Humane Global Governance: Concluding Observations; Endnotes; Chapter 7 Challenging Citizenship; Overview; Tensions of the Times; Constructing Global Citizenship: Reviving the 1990s; Endnotes 327 $aPart Three Regression 330 $aThis work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the changing role of the state, the relevance of institutions, the role of individuals and the importance of the worldwide religious resurgence, with its positive and negative implications. He also considers the post-modern geopolitics of the Bush presidency, with its emphasis on the militarization of space, the control of oil in the Middle East, an 606 $aGeopolitics 606 $aImperialism 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aUnited States - Foreign relations 606 $aWar on Terrorism, 2001- 615 4$aGeopolitics. 615 4$aImperialism. 615 4$aInternational relations. 615 4$aUnited States - Foreign relations. 615 4$aWar on Terrorism, 2001-. 676 $a327.1 676 $a327.73 700 $aFalk$b Richard$0128681 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787780903321 996 $aThe Declining World Order$93707283 997 $aUNINA