The World At 2000

by Halliday, Fred

• ISBN13: 9780333945353
• ISBN10: 0333945352
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780333994276
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-24
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Beneath the millennial shine of political optimism and technological advance lurk a set of deepuncertainties: global inequality is growing; weapons of mass destruction are spreading; strident assertions of identity divide peoples and states. Overall, there is a marked lack of effective coordination and reduced confidence in the power of people, ideas and democratic processes to achieve change. This important book by a leading observer of international relations provides acritical but cautiously optimistic assessment of the state and prospects of the world at 2000.

Author Biography

Fred Halliday is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Islam & The Myth of Confrontation (I. B. Tauris), 1996.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of Acronyms	xi
A World in Transition	1	(18)
Movements of History	4	(5)
Intellectual Challenges	9	(6)
Limits of the New	15	(2)
The Surprises of Continuity	17	(2)
The Shadow of the Twentieth Century	19	(11)
The Twentieth Century: a Short History	21	(1)
1945: the Turning Point	22	(4)
`European' Values and Beyond	26	(4)
Arguments about World Politics	30	(16)
Hegemonic Optimism	30	(5)
Liberal Reform	35	(5)
A New Anti-imperialism	40	(4)
The `New Middle Ages'	44	(2)
The Recurrence of War	46	(14)
War and Modernity	47	(2)
The Evolution of Insecurity	49	(4)
The Prospect of Inter-state War	53	(3)
The `Revolution in Military Affairs'	56	(2)
Possibilities of Peace	58	(2)
Globalization and its Discontents	60	(15)
Definition and History	60	(3)
Instabilities and Inequalities	63	(4)
Scientific and Technological Change	67	(4)
The Unanswered Challenge: Modernity and Inequality	71	(4)
The Fragility of Democracy	75	(15)
Liberty and its Limits	76	(6)
Historical Context	82	(2)
Russia, China, Indonesia	84	(2)
The Chimera of Fortress Democracy	86	(4)
The Unaccountable Hegemon	90	(20)
A Society in Change	96	(2)
Foreign Policy in Dispute	98	(6)
The Limits of Hyperpower	104	(3)
The US and the World: Towards a Balance Sheet	107	(3)
Delusions of Difference	110	(15)
A Necessary Sociology of Knowledge	115	(4)
Transnationalism in Context	119	(2)
The Misuse of the `Other'	121	(2)
Beyond Cultural Conflict	123	(2)
Governance Beyond Frontiers	125	(14)
Internationalism in Flux	125	(5)
The Advent of `Governance'	130	(3)
Governance: Four Levels	133	(6)
For a Radical Universalism	139	(19)
The Need for Utopia	139	(5)
Bases of a Just Order	144	(4)
The Claims of Community	148	(4)
Universalism Imperilled	152	(4)
Agency in Our Time	156	(2)
Notes	158	(5)
Index	163