The World at 2000

Beneath the millennial shine of political optimism and technological advance lurk a set of deep uncertainties. This book provides a critical but cautiously optimistic assessment of the state and prospects of the world at 2000.

Beneath the millennial shine of political optimism and technological advance lurk a set of deep uncertainties: 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 co-ordination and reduced confidence in the power of people, ideas and democratic processes to achieve change. This book provides a critical but cautiously optimistic assessment of the state and prospects of the world at 2000.

Preface - A World in Transition - The Shadow of the Twentieth Century - Arguments about World Politics - The Recurrence of War - Globalization and its Discontents - The Fragility of Democracy - An Unaccountable Hegemon - Delusions of Difference - Governance Beyond Frontiers - For a Radical Universalism