The Changing Global Order : World Leaders Reflect
The Changing Global Order : World Leaders Reflect
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Author(s): Gardels, Nathan
ISBN No.: 9781577180722
Pages: 240
Year: 199711
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 82.73
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Part I: The Parted Paths of Postcolonialism:1. One World, Two Civilizations: Ryszard Kapuscinski.2. State, Father and God in the South: Mahmoud Hussein (UNESCO).3. God Is Not a Head of State: Jean Daniel (Editor-In-Chief Le Nouvel Obsevateur).4. Islams Second Awakening: Hassan Al-Turabi (Islamic National Front, Leader).


5. When Allah Meets Galileo: Farida Faouzia Charfi (North African female Scientist).6. God and the Political Planet: Regis Debray (French Philosopher).7. Islam: Postman of Civilization: Haris Silajdzic (Ex-Prime Minister of Bosnia).8. Recolonize Africa?: Ali Mazrui (African historian).


9. Does Africa Matter?: Yoweri Muzeveni (President of Uganda).10. Leaving History Behind in Latin America: Alejandro Foxley (former Chilean Finance Minister).11. Torture Without Inflation: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian author).12. From Mosque to Multimedia: Hollywood, Islam, and the Digital Age in Asia: Mahathir Mohamad (Prime Minister of Malaysia).


13. A China That Can Say No: Zhang Xiaobo and Song Qiang (writers).14. America Is No Longer Asia's Model: Lee Kuan Yew (Senior Minister of Singapore).Part II: Defrosting the Old Order:15. What Did We End the Cold War For?: George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Fran çois Mitterand.16. The Great Criminal Revolution: Anatoly Lukyanov (Russian Communist leader).


17. Russia's Pink Clouds of Utopia: Yevgeny Yevutshenko (Russian poet).18. MTV and NATO Under Postcommunism: Aleksandr Kwasniewski (President of Poland).19. The Czech Exception: Vaclav Klaus (Prime Minister of Czech Republic).20.(Very Recent) History Has Absolved Socialism: Fidel Castro (President of Cuba).


21. Why Bosnia Peace Keeping Failed: Kofi Annan (Secretary General, United Nations).Part III: Population, Migrants and Megacities:22. Full House: The Shadow of Global Scarcity: Lester Brown (President of Worldwatch Institute).23. Consumer Society is the Enemy: Jacques Cousteau (Oceanographer).24. Overpopulation Tilts the Planet: Paul Kennedy (historian).


25. Women as the Earth's Last Hope: Nafiz Sadzik (Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund).26. Poor Girls: Benazir Bhutto (former Prime Minister of Pakistan).27. Global Inequality: 358 Billionaires vs. 2.3 Billion People: James Gustave Speth (Administrator, United Nations Development Program).


28. The Past is Too Small to Inhabit: Rem Koolhaas (Architect).29. Asia's Urban Century: George Yeo (Minister of Information, Singapore).30. Immigrants as Postmodern Prophets: Richard Rodriguez (Mexican-American writer).Part IV: Globalization and Empires of the Mind:31. The Culture of Prosperity: Francis Fukuyama (writer and historian).


32. Bypassing the State in Asia: Chai Anan Samudavanija (head of think tank, Bangkok).33. China's 600,000 Avon Ladies: Kenichi Ohmae (Japanese management guru).34. Planetized Entertainment: Michael Eisner (President and CEO, Walt Disney).35. Resisting the Colonels of Disney: Costa-Gavras (filmmaker).


36. A Democratic Media Market: Bill Gates (President and CEO, Microsoft).37. Singapore: Post-Liberal City of the Future: Nathan Gardels.Part V: Terror, Democracy and Peace After the Cold War:38. Old Fanaticism, Modern Weapons: Shimon Peres (ex-Prime Minister, Israel).39. Third Wave Terror Rides the Tokyo Subway: Alvin Toffler (author).


40. Trading the Apocalypse: Jacques Attali (French writer).41. Deng's Legacy: A China Consumed by Chaos: Fang Lizhi (Chinese dissident).42. Democracy is Asian as Well: Aung San Suu Kyi (Nobel Peace Prize winner, Burma).43. A Pluralist Path in the Arab World: King Hussein (King of Jordan).


44. Why Separate States?: Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister, Israel).


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