ABSTRACT
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
part |103 pages
Structures, Actors, and Agency
chapter |42 pages
The Future of the State and State System
chapter |21 pages
Regionalism
chapter |13 pages
Global Institutions
chapter |23 pages
Global Civil Society
part |81 pages
Narmative contours
chapter |29 pages
Toward Global Justice
chapter |33 pages
Religious Resurgence
chapter |15 pages
Challenging Citizenship
part |66 pages
Regression