Distant Proximities Dynamics beyond Globalization / James N. Rosenau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenau, James N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relacions internacionals.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.) : 4 line illus. 16 tables.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University, 2003.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In Distant Proximities, one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post-Cold War, post-September 11 world. Culminating the influential reassessment of international relations he began in 1990 with Turbulence in World Politics, James Rosenau here undertakes the first systematic analysis of just how complex these profound global changes have become. Among his many conceptual innovations, he treats people-in-the-street as well as activists and elites as central players in what we call "globalization." Deftly weaving striking insights into arresting prose, Rosenau traces the links and interactions between people at the individual level and institutions such as states, nongovernmental organizations, and transnational corporations at the collective level. In doing so he masterfully conveys how the emerging new reality has unfolded as events abroad increasingly pervade the routines of life at home and become, in effect, distant proximities. Rosenau begins by distinguishing among various local, global, and private "worlds" in terms of their inhabitants' orientations toward developments elsewhere. He then proceeds to cogently analyze how the residents of these worlds shape and are shaped by the diverse collectivities that crowd the global stage and that sustain such issues as human rights, corruption, the global economy, and global governance. Throughout this richly imaginative, fluidly written book, Rosenau examines how anti-globalization protests and the terrorist attacks on America amount to quintessential distant proximities. His book is thus a pathbreaking inquiry into the dynamics that lie beyond globalization, one that all thoughtful observers of the world scene will find penetrating and provocative.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE Theoretical Perspectives: Recasting Global Life

CHAPTER ONE An Emergent Epoch

CHAPTER TWO People, Collectivities, and Change

CHAPTER THREE Sources and Consequences of Fragmegration

CHAPTER FOUR Local Worlds

CHAPTER FIVE Global Worlds

CHAPTER SIX Private Worlds

CHAPTER SEVEN Movement amone Twelve Worlds

CHAPTER EIGHT Emergent Spaces, New Places, and Old Faces: Immigrants and the Proliferation of Identities

PART TWO Conceptual Equipment: Retooling the Storehouse

CHAPTER NINE Normative and Complexity Approaches

CHAPTER TEN The Skill Revolution

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Information Revolution: Both Powerful and Neutral

CHAPTER TWELVE Structures of Authority: In Crisis or in Place

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Spheres of Authority

PART THREE Issues, Processes, and Structures as Distant Proximities

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Progress toward Human Rights

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Retreat from Human Rights: The Challenge of Systemic Hatred

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Corruption as a Global Issue

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Prosperity and Poverty

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Governance in Fragmegrative Space

PART FOUR Postscript

CHAPTER NINETEEN A Transformed Observer in a Transforming World: Confessions of a Pre-Postmodernist

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691095240

0691095248

9780691231112

0691231117

OCLC:

1251449799