Description
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, and its reliance on military capabilities so superior to that of other states as to make any challenge impractical.
Table of Contents
IntroductionPart One: Structures, Actors, and Agency1. The Future of the State and the State System2. Regionalism3. Global Institutions4. Global Civil SocietyPart Two: Normative Prospects: Law, Justice, and Religion5. Toward Global Justice 6. Religious Resurgence7. Citizenship, Markets, and EmpirePart Three: Regression8. Grasping George W. Bush's Postmodern Geopolitics9. The United Nations After the Iraq War10. Patriotism1. Human Rights and Civil Liberties12. Will the Empire be Fascist?
