Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first CenturyCollier Books, 1994 - 240 pagini As 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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... West today is the model for the social aspira- tions of the shipwrecks of communism and of the deprived masses of the Third World . To be sure , the philosophical and cultural content of the West is in flux , and perhaps to define it as ...
... West today is the model for the social aspira- tions of the shipwrecks of communism and of the deprived masses of the Third World . To be sure , the philosophical and cultural content of the West is in flux , and perhaps to define it as ...
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... 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 the rest of the world . The West considers itself to be ...
... 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 the rest of the world . The West considers itself to be ...
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... West of any binding moral imperatives perpetuates passivity , if not lack of compassion , regarding the dilemmas of inequality . It is no longer possible for anyone in the West to pretend a lack of awareness of the massive hunger that ...
... West of any binding moral imperatives perpetuates passivity , if not lack of compassion , regarding the dilemmas of inequality . It is no longer possible for anyone in the West to pretend a lack of awareness of the massive hunger that ...
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The Century of Megadeath | 7 |
The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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