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Saul, John Ralston, 1947-

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Context. A serpent in paradise ; A summary of the promised future ; What they said it would do ; What somebody forgot to mention ; A short history of economics becoming religion. -- Pt. II. The rise. 1971 ; The vacuum ; The king's foot ; Selected romantic enthusiasms ; The gathering force ; Crucifixion economics. -- Pt. III. The plateau. Success ; 1991 ; The ideology of progress ; 1995. -- Pt. IV. The fall. A negative equilibrium ; NGOs and God ; A chronology of decline ; A chronology of decline: the Malaysian breakout ; The end of belief ; India and China ; New Zealand flips again. -- Pt. V. And where are we going now? The new vacuum: an interregnum of morbid symptoms ; The new vacuum: is the nation-state back? ; Negative nationalism ; The normalization of irregular warfare ; Positive nationalism.

ISBN: 1585676292

LCCN: 2006278192

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Globalization.
Geopolitics.
World politics--1989-
Nationalism.
Sovereignty.

LC Class. No.: JZ1318 / .S32 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 332.114 / SAC 2005