ABSTRACT

This text is designed to provide students with a solid theoretical and methodological base for understanding how the present international system works, how that system is likely to evolve given current world trends, and what realistically can be done to alleviate the most serious global problems. Part 1 develops a world order perspective by examin

chapter |10 pages

General Introduction

part One|206 pages

A World Order Perspective

section Section 1|42 pages

Voices of the Oppressed

section Section 3|76 pages

Approaches to World Order

part Two|280 pages

Analysis of World Order Values

section Section 5|75 pages

Economic Well-Being

part Three|156 pages

Toward Just Worlds

section Section 8|60 pages

Alternative Images of the Future

chapter 34|32 pages

The Global Futures Debate, 1965–1976

chapter 35|22 pages

What New System of World Order?

section Section 9|94 pages

Orientations to Transition