| This
book contends that the forces of late modernism are being caught between
a capital-driven globalization and a territorially rooted revival
of tribalism and ultra-nationalism. Its critical focus is on global
structures that are producing new patterns of North/South and rich/poor
domination, as well as exerting dangerous pressures on the carrying
capacities of the planet.
Richard Falk argues that any hopeful response to these threatening
developments requires the fundamental revision of such basic ideas
as sovereignty, democracy, and security. These organizing conceptions
of political life are being reshaped during this era of transition
from a state-centric world of geopolitics to a more centrally guided
world of geogovernance. He contends that geogovernance will have
adverse consequences for the human condition unless it can be mainly
constructed by transnational democratic forces animated by a vision
of humane governance.
This volume was written for the Global Civilization Project of
the World Order Models Project (WOMP), an international group of
scholars formed to think creatively about legal and political structures
adequate to the needs of the modern world. |
