The 1998-99 lectures embraced the theme 'Politics After Socialism' and disussed the historical impact and fate of socialism. Lecture texts are available online. Download the reader free from Adobe if you need it. If you like a runaway world. When you look into the origins of this runaway world of uncertain possible futures there's one great set of changes which lies behind these transformations, and that is the impact of the phenomenon of globalisation.
Globalisation is a single term for a lot of paradoxical and contradictory changes.
Rather than just talking about greater global integration we should discuss basic shifts in the way our world is and what it is like. I don't think you can understand contemporary political debate without a good sense of the impact socialism and Marxism have made in world history. Socialism and Marxism are not just academic concerns. They have shaped nineteenth and twentieth century world history. Something happened in the last twenty or thirty years which blunted that.