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Distant Proximities Author: James N. Rosenau

ISBN: 9780691095240 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 456 Published: 23 February 2003 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.2 x 2.54 Description:

Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In "Distant Proximities," one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post-Cold War, post-September 11 world. Culminating the influential reassessment of international relations he began in 1990 with "Turbulence in World Politics," James Rosenau here undertakes the first systematic analysis of just how complex these profound global changes have become. Among his many conceptual innovations, he treats people-in-the-street as well as activists and elites as central players in what we call "globalization."

Deftly weaving striking insights into arresting prose, Rosenau traces the links and interactions between people at the individual level and institutions such as states, nongovernmental organizations, and transnational corporations at the collective level. In doing so he masterfully conveys how the emerging new reality has unfolded as events abroad increasingly pervade the routines of life at home and become, in effect, distant proximities.

Rosenau begins by distinguish...

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