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The Declining World Order [[electronic resource] ] : America's Imperial Geopolitics



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Autore: Falk Richard Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Declining World Order [[electronic resource] ] : America's Imperial Geopolitics Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
Disciplina: 327.1
327.73
Soggetto topico: Geopolitics
Imperialism
International relations
United States - Foreign relations
War on Terrorism, 2001-
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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
The 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
ReferencesChapter 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
The 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
A 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
Part Three Regression
Sommario/riassunto: This 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
Titolo autorizzato: The Declining World Order  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-16515-4
1-135-93914-4
0-203-48556-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787780903321
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