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Saul, John Ralston

The collapse of globalism: and the reinvention of the world/ John Ralston Saul - Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2005. - 309 p. ; 24 cm.

PART I: CONTEXT
1 A Serpent in Paradise
2 A Summary of the Promised Future
3 What They Said It Would Do
4 What Somebody Forgot to Mention
5 A Short History of Economics Becoming Religion

PART II: THE RISE
6 1971
7 The Vacuum
8 The King's Fool
9 Selected Romantic Enthusiasms
10 The Gathering Force
11 Crucifixion Economics

PART III: THE PLATEAU
12 Success
13 1991
14 The Ideology of Progress
15 1995
16 A Negative Equilibrium
17 NGOsand God
18 A Chronology of Decline
19 A Chronology of Decline: The Malaysian Breakout
20 The End of Belief
21 India and China
22 New Zealand Flips Again

PART IV: AND WHERE ARE WE GOING NOW?
23 The New Vacuum: An Interregnum of Morbid Symptoms
24 The New Vacuum: Is the Nation-State Back?
25 Negative Nationalism
26 The Normalization of Irregular Warfare
27 Positive Nationalism

ISBN: 9781585676293

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nationalism
Globalization
World politics
Geopolitics
International economic relations

Dewey Class. No.: 337.54051 / SAU/T