The Future of Global Relations Crumbling Walls, Rising Regions [Hardcover]

The collapse of US global hegemony means that the future of global relations will be defined by an integrated and mutually co-operative world order of regions in which there are multiple centres of power. These centres will continue to mature under the ideology of 'regionalism' and through the long historical process of 'regionalization'.Foreword by Richard Falk Preface Introduction PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF AMERICAN HEGEMONY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Hegemony and its Alternatives Imperialism, Empire, Global Capitalism, and American Hegemony Hegemonic Global Capitalism versus the Universal Claims of Human Rights Law Confronting Hegemony as a Form of Social Domination Hegemonic Purposes The Unmapped and Uncharted Journey beyond American Hegemony The Paradigm of Emancipation PART II: RESISTANCE, REGIONALISM& REGIONALIZATION: COUNTER-HEGEMONIC Beginnings among Social Movements& Between Regions Competing Models to Explain American Hegemony and World Order The Unbalanced Power Projections of the American Hegemon Questions and Answers about Resistance to American Hegemony The Future of World Order& the 'Principle of Hegemonic State Accountability' (PHSA) Alternative Models to Superpower Hegemony Conclusion:The Rise of Regional Orders in the Emerging Post-Hegemonic Era

A sober reckoning of the overall situation makes the outlook for the human future bleak and catastrophe-prone. Against such a background of dismal conjecture, this remarkable book by Terrence Paupp is little short of an intellectual miracle. - From the Foreword by Richard Falk

In The Future of Global Relations, Terry Paupp provides a compelling analysis of the decline of American hegemonism and the rise of a new international order dominated by multiple centers of power. The book is especially valuable in describing the new landscape of regional organizations and alliances that are playing an ever more significant role in world affairs, and in identifying the more pluralsî