A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization
And How to Save It
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2010
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3053-2 (ISBN)
Pluto Press (Verlag)
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Argues that the many world crises, including the financial meltdown, climate change and terrorism, are connected problems of a failing global system.
It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilisation. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system.
Most accounts of our contemporary global crises focus on one area, such as climate change, or the threat of terrorism, to the exclusion of others. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed argues that the unwillingness of experts to consider crises from an interdisciplinary perspective, has resulted in their failure to understand historical events. From ecology and the environment, to political governance, the global economy and international relations, Ahmed investigates contemporary crises, not as isolated events, but as trends and processes that belong to a single global system. Ahmed posits that we are therefore not dealing with a 'clash of civilisations', as Samuel P. Huntington argued. Rather, we are dealing with a fundamental crisis of civilisation itself.
It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilisation. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system.
Most accounts of our contemporary global crises focus on one area, such as climate change, or the threat of terrorism, to the exclusion of others. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed argues that the unwillingness of experts to consider crises from an interdisciplinary perspective, has resulted in their failure to understand historical events. From ecology and the environment, to political governance, the global economy and international relations, Ahmed investigates contemporary crises, not as isolated events, but as trends and processes that belong to a single global system. Ahmed posits that we are therefore not dealing with a 'clash of civilisations', as Samuel P. Huntington argued. Rather, we are dealing with a fundamental crisis of civilisation itself.
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development in London. He is the author of A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization (Pluto, 2010), The War on Truth: Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (2005) and Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq (2003).
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Climate Catastrophe
2. Energy Scarcity
3. Food Insecurity
4. Economic Instability
5. International Terrorism
6. The Militarization Tendency
7. Diagnosis – Interrogating the Global Political Economy
8. Prognosis - The Post-Carbon Revolution and the Renewal of Civilization
Afterword
Notes and References
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.8.2010 |
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Zusatzinfo | 24 b&w diagrams |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 461 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7453-3053-3 / 0745330533 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-3053-2 / 9780745330532 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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