Power shift
Subtitle: on the new global order
By: Richard Falk
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781783607938; 9781783607945
Subjects: Geopolitics; International law
Description: "This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux. Our ideas about global order have yet to catch up with these new behavioral trends, including the rise of non-state transnational political actors in the context of neoliberal globalization. In this historical setting the modern territorial sovereign state is confronted by multiple challenges ranging from climate change to mass migration to transnational political extremism. The existing global order seems currently overwhelmed by these challenges, resulting in widespread stress and chaos that is transforming global security in ways that endanger democratic governance. The future will be determined by whether the peoples of the world make their weight felt in support of sustainable global justice and overcome the impact of oppressive and exploitative patterns of corporate and state behavior. It is this problematic set of circumstances that Power Shift addresses"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Globalism and globalization: terrorism and state terror; title: 1. Toward a new geopolitics; title: 2. The post-secular divide; title: 3. Why drones are more dangerous than nuclear weapons; title: 4. Contours of New Constitutionalism; title: 5. Horizons of global governance; title: 6. Responding to the global crisis; title: 7. Toward a global imaginary; title: 8. Framing an inquiry: strong societies/weak states; title: 9. Disruptive legacies of World War I; title: 10. The 4+ logics of global order; title: 11. Questioning perpetual war in an era of drone warfare; title: 12. Changing the political climate: one individual at a time; title: 13. Does the human species wish to survive?