Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first CenturyAs we rush toward the 21st century, former Director of the National Security Council Brzezinski takes time out to issue an "urgent warning" about the current state of global politics. He believes we are in peril of repeating the "megadeath" of this century--a century that has witnessed the slaughter of 187 million people in the name of politics. |
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The economic travails of the West , with the growing number of unemployed and
even of the permanently excluded ( such as a significant portion of blacks in
America ) , create the condition of militant desire for the fruits of cornucopia as
well as ...
The economic travails of the West , with the growing number of unemployed and
even of the permanently excluded ( such as a significant portion of blacks in
America ) , create the condition of militant desire for the fruits of cornucopia as
well as ...
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It will , therefore , be incumbent on the democratic , more stable , and richer West
to promote global conditions that reduce the likelihood of such political
regression . This will not be easy , in part because of the West's attitudes toward
much of ...
It will , therefore , be incumbent on the democratic , more stable , and richer West
to promote global conditions that reduce the likelihood of such political
regression . This will not be easy , in part because of the West's attitudes toward
much of ...
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... basic developmental processes as Weberian rationalization and Durkheimian
differentiation . Stated more simply , the prevailing orthodoxy among intellectuals
in the West is that religion is a waning , irrational , and dysfunctional aberration .
... basic developmental processes as Weberian rationalization and Durkheimian
differentiation . Stated more simply , the prevailing orthodoxy among intellectuals
in the West is that religion is a waning , irrational , and dysfunctional aberration .
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OUT OF CONTROL: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
Comentariu Utilizator - KirkusA brilliant and principled analysis of the perilous state of a fractious world as it approaches another millennium. Brzezinski (The Grand Failure, 1989, etc.), director of the National Security ... Citiți recenzia completă
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The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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Informații bibliografice
| Titlu | Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century |
| Autor | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Editor | Collier Books, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0020081154, 9780020081159 |
| Lungime | 240 pagini |
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