Social Futures, Global Visions

Where is the world heading at the turn of the twenty-first century? Towards a desolate landscape of disintegrating societies or towards the construction of new institutions to mitigate violence, reduce poverty and promote peace in a rapidly changing global context? Do ideas of globalization reflect reality and how far are they either new or helpful? Can trends identified in the near and distant past be helpfully extrapolated to predict the future and to understand the present?Ralf Dahrendorf, Amitai Etzioni, Johan Galtung, Anthony Giddens, Eric Hobsbawm, Fatima Mernissi, Tetsuo Najita, Emma Rothschild, Wole Soyinka and Tatyana Tolstaya take up these and other questions and provide some searching and provocative answers. Their discussions span academic disciplines and continents to provide a truly international dialogue on the future of humankind.

Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara is the author of Social Futures, Global Visions, published by Wiley.

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Positive Aspects of Community and the Dangers of Fragmentation
The Perils of Utopia: Communism, Perestroika and the Russian Intelligentsia
The Debate on Economic and Social Security in the Late Eighteenth Century: Lessons of a Road Not Taken
Traditional Co-operatives in Modern Japan: Rethinking Alternatives to Cosmopolitanism and Nativism
Affluence, Poverty and the Idea of a Post-Scarcity Society
On the Social Costs of Modernization: Social Disintegration, Atomie/Anomie and Social Development
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