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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... reality , the world is likely to be even more drastically different in ways that today may seem unthinkable . Discontinuity is the central reality of our contemporary history , and that demands an intensified debate regarding the ...
... reality , the world is likely to be even more drastically different in ways that today may seem unthinkable . Discontinuity is the central reality of our contemporary history , and that demands an intensified debate regarding the ...
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... reality through a commitment to an imaginary reality yet to be achieved , metamyth served to galvanize and channel mass passions — with the spread of literacy facilitating the political appeal of the meta- myths and with industrial ...
... reality through a commitment to an imaginary reality yet to be achieved , metamyth served to galvanize and channel mass passions — with the spread of literacy facilitating the political appeal of the meta- myths and with industrial ...
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... reality . Morally infused choice becomes irrelevant . In the context of worldwide political awakening and of the simultaneous reality of massive socioeco- nomic disparities , the foregoing hardly foreshadows the emer- gence of a ...
... reality . Morally infused choice becomes irrelevant . In the context of worldwide political awakening and of the simultaneous reality of massive socioeco- nomic disparities , the foregoing hardly foreshadows the emer- gence of a ...
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The Century of Megadeath | 7 |
The Centrality of Metamyth | 19 |
Coercive Utopia | 32 |
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Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century Zbigniew Brzezinski Vizualizare fragmente - 1993 |
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