The future of world society
By: Mark Herkenrath ... [et al.] (ed.).
Publisher: Intelligent
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Zurich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Twenty-first century; Forecasts; International relations; Forecasting
Notes: Essays are based on contributions initially presented at the symposium on The Future of World Society, held June 23-24, 2004 at the Sociological Institute of the University of Zurich.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Future of world society : an introduction  -- Mark Herkenrath ... [et al.]; title: Social evolution and the future of world society  -- Christopher Chase-Dunn; title: Long-term trends in world politics  -- George Modelski; title: Future of hegemony and global system leadership  -- Joachim Karl Rennstich; title: Transnational corporate power : expansion, spatial distribution, and concentration, 1962-1998  -- Jeffrey Kentor; title: From world system to world society  -- Alberto Martinelli; title: Globalization and the relation between inequality and justice  -- Georg Kohler; title: How global is global civil society?  -- Neera Chandhoke; title: Transnational social movements in the era of globalization  -- Dieter Rucht; title: US empire and popular sovereignty  -- Gordon Laxer; title: Trends in world culture  -- John Boli; title: Income inequality trends in core societies  -- Arthur S. Alderson, Jason Beckfield and François Nielsen; title: Inequality and divergence in the modern world system : historical forces and the reduction of global inequalities in East and Southeast Asia  -- Harold R. Kerbo; title: Institutional clocks of the welfare state  -- George P. Mueller; title: Education and labour markets  -- Walter Müller; title: Coping with modernization dynamics : Japanese experiences and Max Weber  -- Yasusada Yawata; title: Research on world society and the Zurich School -- Christian Suter.