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| Preface | |
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| Global Challenges at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Demographic Trends | |
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| The Gap between Rich and Poor Societies | |
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| The Technological Explosion: Prometheus Unbound | |
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| Environmental Pressures | |
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| Security Problems: More Weapons of Mass Destruction | |
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| Transborder Diseases | |
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| Global Trends: Confusion and Contradiction | |
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| Conclusion: Should We be Optimistic or Pessimistic? | |
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| World Society--Structures and Trends | |
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| World Society: Reality or Phantom? | |
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| The Great Challenge of the Twenty-First Century: Civilizing the Global Market Economy | |
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| Building Structures Keyed to World Society | |
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| Future Prospects and Challenges | |
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| World Economy--Structures and Trends | |
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| The World Economy at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Regionalism | |
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| Measures Aimed at Stabilizing the World Economy | |
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| World Ecology--Structure and Trends | |
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| Causes of Environmental Degradation | |
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| The Need for Action: Strengthening Global Environmental Governance | |
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| Global Environmental Governance: Aims, Instruments, and Institutions | |
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| Innovations in Global Environmental Governance | |
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| Future Political Options | |
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| World Politics--Structures and Trends | |
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| New Turbulences and Anarchic Tendencies | |
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| Shifting Conceptions of the World: A Multipolar or a Unipolar World Order? | |
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| New Structural Elements of World Politics in the 'Age of Globalism' | |
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| Perspectives and Options: Superpower Governance versus Global Governance? | |
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| Global Governance, Development, and Peace | |
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| Globalization: Is the World Still Governable? | |
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| Building Blocks of a Global Governance Architecture | |
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| Presuppositions of Global Governance | |
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| Contradictions between Insights and Action | |
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| Global Governance, Development, and Peace | |
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| Perspectives of the Global Government Project: Vision or Illusion? | |
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| Globalization and Global Governance--A Synopsis | |
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| Notes on the Contributors | |
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| Index | |