Social Futures, Global Visions

by Hewitt De Alcantara, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780631202295
• ISBN10: 0631202293
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Where is the world heading at the turn of the twenty-first century? Towards a desolate landscape of disintegrating societies or towards the construction of new institutions to mitigate violence, reduce poverty and promote peace in a rapidly changing global context? Do ideas of globalization reflect reality and how far are they either new or helpful? Can trends identified in the near and distant past be helpfully extrapolated to predict the future and to understand the present?Ralf Dahrendorf, Amitai Etzioni, Johan Galtung, Anthony Giddens, Eric Hobsbawm, Fatima Mernissi, Tetsuo Najita, Emma Rothschild, Wole Soyinka and Tatyana Tolstaya take up these and other questions and provide some searching and provocative answers. Their discussions span academic disciplines and continents to provide a truly international dialogue on the future of humankind.

Author Biography

Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara is the author of Social Futures, Global Visions, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Economic Opportunity, Civil Society and Political Liberty

Palace Fundamentalism and Liberal Democracy: Oil, Arms and Irrationality during the Cold War

The Future of the State

The National Question in Africa: Internal Imperatives

Positive Aspects of Community and the Dangers of Fragmentation

The Perils of Utopia: Communism, Perestroika and the Russian Intelligentsia

The Debate on Economic and Social Security in the Late Eighteenth Century: Lessons of a Road Not Taken

Traditional Co-operatives in Modern Japan: Rethinking Alternatives to Cosmopolitanism and Nativism

Affluence, Poverty and the Idea of a Post-Scarcity Society

On the Social Costs of Modernization: Social Disintegration, Atomie/Anomie and Social Development

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