A Global World? focuses on the complex interplay between existing and emerging political arrangements. It relates changes in the world's political geography to economic and cultural changes, and assesses the possibilities of a genuinely global politics. Individual chapters discuss: recent changes in the world order and the growth of transnational political networks; problems of uneven development associated with the creation of 'global regions' - North American, Japanese and, especially, the European Union; pressures on the nation-state from supra-state developments and sub-state regional movements; variations in the world of Islam and its global significance; the scope for transnational politics and social movements as exemplified by environmentalism; and the tensions between global problems, uneven development and uneven responses.
The treatment of these issues will be of key interest to students of geography, politics, international relations and other social sciences.
A Global World? focuses on the complex interplay between existing and emerging political structures. It relates changes in the world's political landscape to economic and cultural changes, and assesses the possibilities for genuinely global politics. Individual chapters discuss the problems of uneven development associated with the creation of "global regions" like the North American Free Trade Zone and the European Union, the pressures imposed on the state by supra-state developments and sub-state regional movements, variations in the world of Islam and their global significance; the scope for transnational politics and social movements as exemplified by environmentalism, and the global tensions caused by uneven development and uneven responses.
