Distant Proximities: Dynamics beyond Globalization

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 448 pages
• Published by: Princeton University Press March 10, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0691095248
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0691095240
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Review
In this sweeping study of global change, Rosenau argues that the world is undergoing an epochal transformation driven by relentless scientific and technological advances that collapse time and distance and alter the dimensions of political space. . . . Rosenau convincingly illustrates the increasing complexity of global relationships.
(eign Affairs )

James Rosenau's book is no doubt his magnum opus, providing a detailed, multi-faceted analysis of globalization's complexities in an ever-shrinking world of uncertainty, change, and contradiction.
(Cecilia Ann Winters Journal of Economic Issues )

Product Review
The recently bygone bipolar world of the Cold War looks simple in comparison to the complexities of today's globalizing era. Professor James Rosenau, in this wide-ranging masterwork of conceptual synthesis, develops a new vocabulary--distant proximities, fragmegration, glocalization--to help us explore the contradictory impact on our times of worldwide economic and electronic integration; religious, ethnic, and tribal hatreds; information overload; and terrorism. Individuals, communities, nation-states, and international structures are all struggling to accommodate the dynamics of today's unprecedented social and economic change. Rosenau's powerful yet nuanced analysis encompasses the agenda of our times--income disparities, human rights violations, corruption, high tech violence--and he leaves us pondering whether global and community governance will be able to cope with the challenges of a fragmegrative world.
(Richard H. Solomon, President, U.S. Institute of Peace )

Reader Reviews
Its rare to find a book of this caliber. Not only does it thoroughly analyze the politics of the future, but it also offers a typology of how individuals assess and confront political change in their world. Fragmegration, the tension between integration and fragmentation in the world order, plays a central role in the book, constantly weaving its way through the various analyses. The last section of the book, concerns information politics, the skill revolution, and how today's economic and technological changes are affecting politics and those who must contend with the uncertainties in the evolving political "mobius web." This book is on my book list here on Amazon.com: "Panarchy: Relational Politics in the Information Future"