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When Margaret J. Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science was initially published in 1992, it outlined an unquestionably unique but extremely challenging view of change, leadership, and the structure of groups. Many readers immediately embraced its cutting-edge perspective, but others just could not understand how the complicated scientific tenets it described could be used to reshape institutions. Now Wheatley, an organizational specialist who has since coauthored A Simpler Way, updates the original by including additional material (such as an epilogue addressing her personal experiences during the past decade) and reconstructing some of her more challenging concepts. The result is a much clearer work that first explores the implications of quantum physics on organizational practice, then investigates ways that biology and chemistry affect living systems, and finally focuses on chaos theory, the creation of a new order, and the manner that scientific principles affect leadership. "Our old ways of relating to each other don't support us any longer," she writes. "It is up to us to journey forth in search of new practices and new ideas that will enable us to create lives and organizations worthy of human habitation." --Howard Rothman
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Leadership and the New Science launched a revolution by demonstrating that ideas drawn from quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology could improve organizational performance. Margaret Wheatley called for free-flowing information, individual empowerment, relationship networks, and organizational change that evolves organically -- ideas that have become commonplace. Now Wheatley's updated classic, based on her experiences with these ideas in a diverse number of organizations on five continents, is available in paperback.
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"Science - y " for the Science Type.......2007-08-03
Leadership and the New Science is a hard read unless you are the science type. Each chapter starts out like an introduction to evolution, but the ending (the part that you can actually conprehend) is very thought-provoking.
Signficant and Revolutionary Insights to Human Organizations.......2007-07-02
The insights put forth by this book need not be limited to businesses - though that is the stated perspective (ie applying the insight of the new sciences to business managment theory). I think the insights go far beyond business managment and would be of interest to anyone interested in group dynamics and how humans work together - be it on a local community or national level.
For those who may perceive the book as a slam against newtonian physics (as at least one reviewer simplistically decribed it) I do not believe she was invalidating newtonian physics nor mindlessly framing organization dynamics with simplistic generalizations from the "new sciences". She was quite explicit in her introduction that this book was intended as a reflective piece to see what insights might be gained from applying a new paradigm - legitimized by the insights and advances in physics over the last century - to organizational dynamics. To provide context, she demonstrates how our models for organizational theories have derived from newtonian physics and - just as we have learned that this paradigm is not sufficient to describe all of the natural world - perhaps our perspective into other spheres of human activity can be enhanced by applying the insights of the "new sciences" as well.
In short, this book offers a new way of thinking for any human endeavor and its insight are - I believe - essential for progressing into the next millenium.
Disorganized.......2007-05-26
It's really not my type of book. It was required reading for class. I think it was trying to get at some ideas like field vision and systems theory. I found more substantial info in dalai's books. I think it was called seven ways of Buddhism.
Applies quantum theory to management.......2007-05-12
This book is a challenging read and is a good fit for someone who's both scientifically and management minded. It provides some good links between quantum theory and management, but at times, it is a struggle to understand and one must read the section over several times to fully understand.
The author's work at the Berkana Institute is very interesting which believes that leaders are already present in communities and need to emerge. If you like the book, I encourage you to look up the institute!
Challening, Accessible and Interesting.......2007-04-25
This book is challenging, yet accessible, even if the reader does not posses a scientific background. While Wheatley's observations about organizations and their problems are not unique to her, her approach is, and provides an interesting framework to approach organizational development and design.
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This is the clearest, most useful guide to parliamentary procedure, now with new information on effective and reliable procedures for nominations, elections, ballots, balloting, and ballot counting.
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excellent companion volume.......2007-06-13
Do not be confused. This book is not Robert's Rules of Order (RROO). It is a companion volume designed to explain RROO. It is, however, a very good companion which I found to be very easy to understand and contained some very up-to-date information like how to vote by e-mail.
It has some other nice features like scripts to use in meetings. However, it lacks a simple table of motions, something that is included in most versions of RROO.
Unfortunately, the most up-to-date official version of RROO (the Newly Revised, 10th edition) is a huge book compared to the original volume that Mr. Robert wrote in 1876 as a pocket guide. To me, the large size makes the newest edition virtually useless. If you are interested in parliamentary procedure for a PTO, club, or church business meetings, you are also unlikely to need the most recent edition.
The last edition that Robert himself was personally involved in before his death was the 1915 Revised edition (not to be confused with the Newly Revised versions). This was the official version for many decades and I think is still good enough for most users. I purchased a paperback re-print of this edition from 1970 which also added a new preface by Robert's grandson.
Some supposedly modern editions of RROO are really just re-writes of the original 1876 version. I assume that as the original book is so old, it has long run out of copyright, so anybody can publish their own RROO. This may be a good thing as people looking for a more slimmed-down book may be happier with a modernized version of Robert's original pocket version. However, the 1915 edition, while expanded significantly over the original, is not so huge and I think a reasonable compromise.
So, to make a long story short. I would recommend purchasing some official version of RROO (again, I like the 1915 edition) along with Webster's book.
Essential reading material!.......2007-05-17
I accepted a position as Board Administrator in a charity organization in Seoul, South Korea. Prior to that, I had heard about Robert's Rules of Order, but had never used the book as a reference. In my time as a Board Administrator, I referred to this book often for a proposed amendment to our Constitution and By-Laws, procedures for notifying members of the Annual General Meeting, and to clarify the motion-making procedure for Board members. Robert McConnell Productions uses sample scripts to give readers can get a sense for how to conduct a board meeting (Chapter 2, "A Business Meeting in Action"), how to debate a motion (Chapter 4, "Rules of Debate"), and how to vote (Chapter 5, "Ways the Vote Can be Taken"). I passed my copy to the next Board Administrator and just ordered a new copy for myself. Board members have a significant advantage in Board negotiations if they are intimately familiar with RRO.
Great for beginners and experts alike!.......2001-03-19
This book is great for people of all ages and experience levels! It combines the information from Robert's Rules of Order with the author's own tips to deliver one of the world's best reference materials. It presensts strategies for using each motion and gives examples that make writing a meeting script much easier!...
Robert's Rules of Order Simplified and Applied.......2000-04-04
I used this book extensively this year. It is extremely easy to use and follow. When my other copy and edition failed me, this edition was always useful. The index in the back makes it very easy to find exactly what point of order you are looking for. Also, the book gives real life, present day examples. I highly recommend this version of an old standby.
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Finally, here is the Truth in a form that everyone can understand. Michael Sharp has done a spectacular job of presenting the deep spiritual truths of creation and of this planet in an accessible, direct, and no-nonsense format. In The Book of Life learn all you need to know in order to understand and navigate the dramatic global changes now unfolding. Everything from the energetic nature of the universe through karma, prophecy, the Annunaki, the failed ascension attempts of Atlantis/Lemuria and our current (and successful!) ascension work is laid out in appealing fashion. Once you pick it up, you cannot put it down. The Book of Life: Ascension and the Divine World Order is the definitive guide to the new age and the end-times unfolding. A must read for anybody anxious to understand the events unfolding around the
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Finally, here is the Truth in a form that everyone can understand. Michael Sharp has done a spectacular job of presenting the deep spiritual truths of creation and of this planet in an accessible, direct, and no-nonsense format. In The Book of Life learn all you need to know in order to understand and navigate the dramatic global changes now unfolding. Everything from the energetic nature of the universe through karma, prophecy, the Annunaki, the failed ascension attempts of Atlantis/Lemuria and our current (and successful!) ascension work is laid out in appealing fashion. Once you pick it up, you cannot put it down.
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Ascension and the Divine World Order.......2007-09-07
It is time people wake up and quit watching TV and read the books
that are available about the coming 5 year period. We are in a very
very important period in "Time" and Dr Michael Sharp is excellent at
presenting some of the information.
Michael Sharp doesn't waste any time in impressing the import of his theories.......2007-08-27
Michael Sharp doesn't waste any time in impressing the import of his theories upon a reader, as the first sentences of The Book of Life: Ascension and the Divine World Order make clear: Welcome to the most significant event in the history of creation. I tend to be skeptical of statements like this, but I kept reading and I found something surprising a clear explanation of New Age concepts offset only slightly by outlandish ideas.
The Book of Life is centered on helping its reader understand the path to Ascension, which Sharp describes as the act of gaining understanding and welcoming a higher consciousness into your body. He argues that as the universe is comprised of energy, it is our goal to learn how to let this energy flow through us and alter our perception to expand within the physical universe.
These theories on the Ascension are easier to process than many New Age texts, chiefly because I recognize several of them from existing mythologies. The concept of the yin-yang, the golden rule, the serpent devouring its own tail, the Indian chakra system and the Jewish Tree of Life are all seen as interpretations of the universe balancing energy. It's refreshing to read such a comprehensive belief structure, and Sharp presents each part with equal seriousness.
However, when it comes to explaining the historical background of Ascension I found Sharp sounded more like a science fiction writer. The possibility that the mythical societies of Lemuria and Atlantis failed because of poor energy distribution and we are shouldering that karmic fallout is a bit outlandish, but when Sharp suggests that our spiritual growth was subjugated eons ago by an alien race known as the Annunaki he begins to forfeit his credibility.
Sharp wins back some credibility later in the book when he discusses how society is moving towards the Ascension naturally, citing such strides as the Internet and the spread of science and literacy. He offers several techniques for coming to the Ascension face your fears, expand your chakra, seek out your spiritual guides, adopt a life view on par with the Greek Stoics which are somewhat bland next to his buildup of the process but useful advice for daily life.
His urgent tone detracts from his idea of awakening, but there is enough information in "The Book of Life" to help with personal understanding. I found several of its suggestions useful, and would easily recommend it to anyone looking for a nudge in beliefs.
Christ Consciousness Ahoj!.......2007-08-21
If there is one book which really and truly demystifies the process of ascension and puts in perspective, the enormous emotional charge associated with the prophesied event, it must be Michael Sharp's 'The Book of Light'. This event, also known as the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, has been prophesied to take place, sometime after December 23rd, 2012. This date also coincides with the end of the Mayan calendar and signifies the end of our civilization, as we know it. Many mystics and channeled sources have taken up this topic for discussion, stating that the 'end times' would be a time when people would stop regarding his/her neighbour as a distinct 'other' and 'do unto another as s/he would have done to him/her self'.
This book is the first of a series by Michael Sharp. The author affirms that he is one of many who have been assigned the task of making accessible to the general public, the genuine facts behind the Ascension Project, underlying the spiritual history of this planet. To this end, he reveals a certain amount of information on the Lemurian and Atlantean civilisations, during both of which, attempts at ascension failed. In this book, the author goes deeper into the spiritual reason behind the present ascension attempt, the physical implications for us as earthlings, and the kind of choices and decisions specifically required of us as we experience a gigantic transiotion of this kind. As mentioned in the beginning of this review, seldom has material as esoteric as this, been presented in such a lucid, concise and incisive fashion. Some of the material is clearly channeled from a source outside the physical. This 'inside information' is something we are intuitively aware of, but, as beings on the physical plane, we cannot access this 'long term perspective' directly. In the vision presented in this book, Michael Sharp paints a picture, that for me, fitted effortlessly with my own view as to what to expect when the 'end times' come calling.
The first in this series, this book deals with the nitty gritty of the event per se. It says clearly that the event is one of 'grounding Christ Consciousness', after achieving which, we embrace our collective transcendental destiny as fulfilled human beings, working in concert with each other (instead of in competition) and with All That Is. The Second Book, called 'the Dossier of the Ascension', is an elaboration of the last two chapters of the first book. In this book, more specific and detailed instructions are given as to chakra activation and the reason behind the blockages that are commonly experienced. I have yet to read the third book in this series, 'The Book of Light', but it deals with the nature of our consciousness and how it is, in essence, a 'body of light'.
I can't recommend this book highly enough. If you're wondering why you are here, who you really are, why you have been held back from achieving your objectives, read this book.You will recognize this information, it will resonate with what you already know, deep in the confines of your own heart (as it did with me). It will light a candle within you, wake up dormant memories.Your programmed responses to trying situations will begin to change, they will be more awake and more aware. And perhaps, you will have begun your own journey, at an accelerated pace, to Christ Consciousness.
Loving Spirit, Black Hawk, SD.......2007-08-01
Michael Sharp has given me so many answers to questions I have had all my life. He repeats that there are many paths for an individual to achieve awakening and ascension. He believes his books are the fastest way to achieve this. I know that since I started reading Book of Life I have moved forward faster and further than in my 42 yrs of searching and working toward my highest spiritual self. As in all things, the individual will know which path to enlightenment they need to take. Due to this book I have made the choice to take the Lightening Path. Thank you Michael for sharing your loving energy with all of us.
Read with caution; continue on your own path..........2007-07-07
It is with caution that I am checking out this author's book and writings. Like many on this quest, I have seen my share of willful charlatans, along with plenty of purported channelers seeking only to sell their books and other products, plus those who are well-intentioned but simply deluded and ensnared in their own illusions or concoctions of Truth.
To the list of "I do not believe" items in the intro of The Book Of Light, Volume One (free download from Sharp's website), I add these two: I do not believe in a single answer or universal path for all persons given our individual stages of development on the karmic walk, and I do not believe that anyone walking this Earth has sufficient spiritual clarity to be consciously aware of the entire spritual truth of the planet, as Sharp claims.
Those of us who walk this path in earnest understand that we create our reality, and that we each must walk an individual path to rediscover our Unity, our Oneness with/in God. It is a welcome respite if we find useful resources along the way that speak to us, and sometimes a book can really seem revelatory to person(s) who have never heard such words before. But I have great reservation about anyone who presents him/her self as a spiritual teacher but uses an academic title such as "Dr." for apparent validation (did Gandhi or Krishnamurti or Jesus or Gautama do this?) and purports to know it all, no matter how sensible-sounding some of his/her writings may sound. And I am immediately put on guard when any book starts with "Hello Dear One" as though spoken from a place of benign superiority.
Advice to all readers: Continue to seek your own Truth, don't buy into another's version. If the words in this book speak to you, that's wonderful. Use them as a guidepost to continue your quest. Don't fall into the trap of guru or dogma worship or into the illusion of having "arrived" because something in a book resonates with you.
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From its opening-line salvo—"It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world"—Of Paradise and Power announces a new phase in the relationship between the United States and Europe. Robert Kagan begins this illuminating essay by laying out the general differences as he sees them: the U.S. is quicker to use military force, less patient with diplomacy, and more willing to coerce (or bribe) other nations in order to get a desired result. Europe, on the other hand, places greater emphasis on diplomacy, takes a much longer view of history and problem solving, and has greater faith in international law and cooperation. Kagan does not view these differences as the result of innate national character, but as a time-honored historical reality--the U.S. is merely behaving like the powerful nation it is, just as the great European nations once did when they ruled the world. Now, Europe must act multilaterally because it has no choice. The "UN Security Council is a substitute for the power they lack," he writes.
Kagan also emphasizes the inherent ironies present in the relationship. European nations have enjoyed an "American security guarantee" for nearly 60 years, allowing them to cut back on defense spending while criticizing the U.S. for not doing the same. Yet Europe relies upon the U.S. for protection. This has led America and Europe to view the same threats much differently, as evidenced by the split over how to deal with Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Kagan points out that some European leaders are more afraid of how the U.S. will wield its power in the Middle East than they are of the thought of Hussein or other "rogue state" leaders acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
Kagan's brevity is as impressive as it is appreciated; most writers would have required thrice as many pages to get to their point. At any length, the book is nothing short of brilliant. This is essential reading for those seeking to understand the post-Cold War world. --Shawn Carkonen
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From a leading scholar of our country’s foreign policy, the brilliant essay about America and the world that has caused a storm in international circles now expanded into book form.
European leaders, increasingly disturbed by U.S. policy and actions abroad, feel they are headed for what the New York Times (July 21, 2002) describes as a “moment of truth.” After years of mutual resentment and tension, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the trans-atlantic relationship itself has changed, possibly irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high-handed, unilateralist, and unnecessarily belligerent; the United States sees Europe as spent, unserious, and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehension.
This past summer, in Policy Review, Robert Kagan reached incisively into this impasse to force both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other. Tracing the widely differing histories of Europe and America since the end of World War II, he makes clear how for one the need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of transnational beliefs about power and threat, while the other has perforce evolved into the guarantor of that “postmodern paradise” by dint of its might and global reach. This remarkable analysis is being discussed from Washington to Paris to Tokyo. It is esssential reading.
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A Provocative Essay That Deserves to be Heard.......2007-10-09
"America's cause is the cause of mankind" Benjamin Franklin once said.
As the most powerful nation in the post-Evil-Empire World Order, will America stop pretending it shares the same destiny and aspirations with a fundamentally dissimilar Europe?
With all the clamor surrounding foreign policy debates these days, the notion that this nation was destined to become an "Empire of liberty" is seldom contemplated upon and often scorned altogether. Hordes of Americans will fervently defend striding to follow the militarily weaker states of Europe who harmoniously coexist today while relying solely on International institutions and diplomacy, but is this the most propitious path for the lone standing superpower in the world?
Foreign Affairs scholar Robert Kagan, in an admirably succinct essay, examines the differences and ambitions of the two while upholding that Europeans and Americans do not share the same world view or convictions that determine their actions on the world stage. His argument centers around the differences in attitudes and experiences of the two modern empires in which he asserts that, although unpopular with the international community, America's role in the new world order dictates a position of leadership and the authority to act in its own best interests.
This compact book sets forth an intricate but enigmatic premise that the US must take the initiative to act at times unilaterally for its own concernment and security, even if it means without the moral or strategic support from Europe. Asserting that the root cause of the divisions in attitudes between the two is America's willingness to use it's power that's construed as "a threat to Europe's new sense of mission" by contemporary European countries. Nevertheless, he assures that there still remains a "West" that partakes in a common vision for humanity despite contrasting worldviews.
Politically inconvenient to the Left, and fragments of the Right; opposing parities will deny it, but Kagan affirms there is no refuting that those who behold power have an obligation to global responsibility. As he puts it: "The myth of America's "isolationist" tradition is remarkably resilient. But it is a myth. Expansion of territory and influence has been an inescapable reality of American history, and it has not been an unconscious expansion. The ambition to play a grand role of the world stage is deeply rooted in the American character."
Welcome to the desert of the neocon.......2007-05-13
This book is useful for insight into the thinking of neoconservatives, but has little to do with the real world.
Kagan states that appeasement policies of the 1930's were "a product not of analysis but of weakness." That's funny considering the USSR was the biggest appeaser of any country in Europe, actively conspiring with Hitler to invade Poland. Yet the USSR chewed up the vast bulk of Germany's continental armies and occupied half of Europe. To claim the USSR, Britain, and France all followed policies of appeasement for the same single reason would be dubious no matter the reason. To say the reason was weakness is stupid.
The United States is compared to a heroic Sheriff protecting the weak townsfolk against rogues and outlaws. I suggest Kagan read up on the history of the old west, in fact lawmen were often no better then outlaws and they frequently switched places. Hardly an example to follow if you intend to be a hegemon for long.
Perhaps most delusional is the analogy where he compares dealing with Iraq to shooting a bear. C'mon, wasn't it supposed to be more like shooting a cow?
Throughout the book Kagan conflates Europe with some mythical all powerful female figure. The essay at heart is a cry for liberation from her feminine strictures, a call for men to act like men and shoot each other.
Not very good policy, but this volume is a near perfect time-capsule of neoconservative thought. Future psychologists and social historians are indebted.
God It Has Aged.......2007-04-26
Luckily this book got an afterword in 2004. The initial text is definitely obsolete. But even so three years have passed and the book is quite largely obsolete. First and foremost today the main objection at the decision of the Bush administration to go at war in Iraq is that all evidence, intelligence and testimonies brought to our attention at the time has been revealed as nothing but lies. And maybe even worse than that. The recently revealed top secret classified papers from the French Ministry of Defense have revealed that terrorist attacks were planned with highjacked commercial planes at least nine months before 9/11. Did the Minister of Defense at the time, a socialist, not communicate this intelligence to the newly elected President Bush? Or did the newly elected President Bush neglect this intelligence. A second investigation is necessary. What did the two administrations, French and US, do at the time? And don't forget this field of expertise (military and foreign policies) is the privileged area of presidential governance in France. So Chirac had some kind of say in the decision to communicate or not this intelligence to the US. But that does not change the fact that all arguments used by Colin Powell or President Bush in 2002-2003 were a pack of lies. But even so, and trust cannot be built on lies, the other essential objection of Europeans and many other nations, including China and Russia, was that this war would open up a box of surprises, each one of them worse than all the others. Today in 2007 we are forced say that all these fears have come true. I will overlook the torturing of prisoners in El Ghraib or Guantanamo. I will overlook the nullification of habeas corpus for the prisoners in Guantanamo. I will only look at two elements that cannot be solved in any way by any number of GIs, no matter how many. Iraq is on the verge of a possible explosion that will send waves and tremors a lot farther than the Middle East. Who can imagine what would happen if a reunified Kurdistan was becoming a reality? Who can imagine what would happen if a reunified Shiite nation were to be recomposed, essentially what's more a reunified Shiite nation that would not be Arabic in spite of its being Moslem? What remains on the table is that Iraq has become ungovernable with three million refugees all around the world, and essentially in Syria and Jordania, with at least 600,000 civilian victims so far and the number grows everyday by the hundreds and not by the units. That's why we, the Europeans and many others, said the war was an absurdity. No WMDs but results that are deadly. Iran is running on an everyday more radical road. Hizbollah has taken over Moslem Lebanon. Hamas has been elected in Palestine, and there is no end to that long line of consequences. President Bush has opened up a Pandora's box that threatens to be a well timed but unpredictable bomb. When will it explode? We don't know. Will Israel's nuclear weapons be enough to stop it? We don't know. What will the Russia or Chinese reaction be? We don't know. That's why this book has to be read and meditated upon. It is the revelation of the most extreme impossibility for some American intellectuals to listen to the world and understand history is changing. So far class struggle and war were the engines of history. Today economic welfare and development are becoming this engine because everyone wants electricity, cars, fridges and washing machines. Henry Ford's answer when he was asked why his T Model was black is typical of the extreme dictatorship the mass economy of the mass consumer's society we are living in or aspiring to be living in imposes onto us, and without any kind of a war possible out of it: "I have no objection to any other color, provided it is black." Humanity started its long road towards freedom and democracy and welfare as soon as the homo sapiens, Cromagnon in Europe, decided to develop the division of labor imposed by the premature state of its little babies into an economic division of labor that created then the market economy, since some had goods or services others did not have and they had to start pooling together and exchanging things. The future of the world is democratic because the mass market of our mass consumer's society requires peace and freedom, peace and democracy, peace and personal individual responsibility and creativity. President Bush maybe wants to go faster than the hands of the Big Ben of history. Impossible. One has to desire something to accept to have it, better even to earn it, win it or deserve it. A gift is a gift but if it a basic vital thing it becomes an alienation or a humiliation. The Americans did not understand that, even in Europe. I remember a colleague professor of mine in Davis, CA, presenting the land around the campus as the richest land in the world. Vanity fair, nothing else. In de Gaulle's time hotel managers in Paris explained American tourists that they did not have the biggest king size beds in the world, nor the most spacious bath cum toilet restrooms, but they did have the biggest fleas and all French people were proud of their fleas. Robert Kagan is behind his time, just like President Bush. And I did have a petition signed after 9/11 to express my and many other people's grief and solidarity with the victims and I did have a petition widely signed in my city at the time against the war in Iraq after Babylon had been attacked. So please don't argue the point and the trauma of 9/11 that some of my students read 9-1-1.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
Breaking down trends in transatlantic relations.......2007-04-19
For such a short book, Kagan simply and adeptly lays out his beliefs on why America and Europe seem to behave differently in the international arena.
Some salient points: Where we are today is merely a reversal of roles--Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries wielded great power, while America played the role of a minor power. Today, America wields great power, while the Europeans have not collectively come together as a great power on the international stage.
Kagan outlines the paradox of this situation: simply put, America, in the post-war era, created, to an extent, the situation that we have today. By providing security to Europe in the Cold War, the Europeans were able to reallocate resources that would have been spent on defense. Which was a problem during the crises in the Balkans, where Europe found itself hamstrung to effectively deal with problems close to home.
While dated, it is still relevant today. While America would like to see the Europeans shoulder more of a defense burden around the globe, it remains a target of European criticism for taking action that others can not. Therein lies the dilemma. Great read, and should be of interest to anyone studying international relations and transatlantic relations.
Discredited Neocon.......2007-02-17
If you want the warmongering neocon point of view, from those same guys who brought us the Project for the New American Century, pre-emptive war on Iraq based on falsified intelligence, and who are now foaming at the mouth to invade Iran, subjugating US foreign policy to Israeli interests and perhaps create a world-wide war in the process....go right ahead!
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A Century of War - oustanding analysis and great writing!.......2007-07-03
This is a must read book for anyone who is interested in learning the truth behind the headlines relating to many recent events. From the Falklands War to the current war in Iraq, this book analysis the economic factors that lead to - or in some way influenced - some of the major global events in modern history.
It explores in detail the relationships, theories and possible motives behind them without ever descending into crazy 'conspiracy' theories.
I've bought this book for a number of people and urge anyone who has an interest in the world around them to read it.
not worth the time.......2007-06-30
I find it odd that some of the reviews here praise the book for being well-documented, because in the 60 or so pages I've read so far it has no documentation or support whatsoever for some pretty wild claims. I had high hopes when I picked this up at the library because it is an interesting topic, but now I find it impossible to take it seriously.
A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order.......2007-06-08
This book should be a "Must Read" for everyone. The information in this book is all public information that is available for all to see, but unfortunately most people want to keep their heads in the sand, or up their you know where. The author has done a wonderful job with his research and ability to make this book an easy read, and once one starts reading it, you will not want to put it down. Understanding this book will allow anyone to really see behind the headlines and at least take comfort in knowing that they know what is really taking place in the world today, and that politics is just acting at its BEST! You will no longer be afraid of all the BS that the politicans and wolrd leaders spew from the their pie holes, full well knowing that it is a big game, and all of the world is a stage! Enjoy life, and live it too your fullest, and there are things that one can not control.
not worthy of buying.......2007-06-05
The author of this book clearly wants to take advantage of oil being the hot issue of today's world. Yet he fails to present the reader with really anything more than conspiracy theories. Oil is definitely an important and strategic resource but considering it the only reason of competition or conflict is not even symplistic, it's false. It's easy to say that the bad things were done by the selfish tycoons controling the financial world, as any other conspiracy theory it can not be proved wrong (how do you prove that the governement of USA is not run by aliens?), the important thing is that author does not give any evidence supporting his idea, also he does not use any academical sources and most of the work are his own thoughts about the history. Quite often when he is refering to seome events his is telling the reader only half of the story, omitting information that is not comfortable with his point of view. Nevertheless the book can be useful for showing another point of view concerning world politics. The author of this review is student of international relations and security and strategics studies.
The British and Americans are the devil's hands.......2007-04-18
After reading this expose of the British and American subjugation or the world's people and conscious impaling of that world on the horns of war, I am shocked and ashamed of my heritage. This book is well written and connects all the dots behind the sinister James Bond money culture that has harmed so many.
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Sensational Premise; Unresolved.......2005-09-03
William Still starts his interesting work with the sensational premise that, during the latter days of the Nixon administration, there was a move afoot to carry off a military coup d'etat of the government of the United States. He follows this startling premise with a really worthwhile, though not comprehensive, rendition of conspiratorial history. This part of well written, but is missing much that is extremely relevant to the overall issue. Still then concludes, returning the original sensational premise, and relating, inexplicably, that it may or may not have been true. Despite this serious flaw, the book is generally well written and useful.
your journey to paranoia starts here.......2004-12-21
This book is wickedly entertaining, and seems to make a lot of sense, although, giving a few months of time to think about the material made me realize that it was little more than good entertainment. Conspiracy theories are good fun and can make you snap out of boredom and skirt the boundary of paranoia, which is a testament to how dull our lives can be. This book may have you looking at everyone you see in a funny way for a while, but in the end it should be viewed as mere entertainment. Some of this junk may be true, and there are abundant cross references to the material, but this guy's whole mission of sending an alarm seems to be just a vice for his own self-aggrandizement. Good fun, but there is better material on this subject out there.
Fascinating, Frightening, and Factual !!.......2004-11-27
Still's New World Order: The ancient plan of secret societies will make a great reading for the curious and brave mind that's willing to explore and learn the facts about the evolution of the elitist societies. Many of these secret societies have gone through a major metamorphosis that has led them to become legitimate entities and organizations. These organizations have been ruling every aspect of our lives for many years. Just like in organized crime, these powerful families even tend to intermarry among each other to strengthen the bond of power and wealth among themselves. They are the invisible rulers of the world that make the policies which in return bring them more money and power. You will learn in this book how it all started and why it will never end. This is not a book about evil, or about a doomsday scenario, but it is a book about man's desperate quest, obsession, and addiction to power, control, and aspiration to become god. The one world order (globalization is another benign name for it) has already happened and no one can stop it. The elites have facilitated the wedding of the global corporations to the political world, thereby creating a conquering hybrid machine which has tremendously succeeded in subjugating every corner of the globe economically and militarily if needed. This book will provide the reader with enlightening concepts that might be so shocking to believe. Still's research is disturbing and unsettling but very well documented and mostly accurate.
Interesting Book.......2004-10-14
The author of this book has a definite perspective regarding religion and while I don't agree with his view 100%, I still found his writing to be very interesting and enjoyable. I learned things I definately didn't know prior to reading this book. It opened my eyes on a number of world issues and specific US occurences. This is a book worth reading. Great overview of the subject (NWO, CFR, TC, Bilderbergers, etc.).
Worst Scholarship Possible!.......2004-08-23
The author writes this book from a fundamentalist biblical perspective, which makes it like trying to argue the bible with someone who continuously quotes it out of context. The antique references show the author's bias. On reading the second chapter descriptions of "secret societies" a person who knows Egyptian history and religion cannot help but feel a twinge of pain at the outright falsity of almost everything he writes there. The same goes for the brief blurb on Gnosticism as well as most of the rest of it. Find a book that has a more balanced view of history and religious ideas and skip this one. If you consider your time of any value at all then reading this book definitely wastes it.
Average customer rating:
- Graphic SF Reader
- I love the Justice league
- Great artistry, predicatable story, glad the JLA seven are back together
- Almost as good as a super-hero comic can get!
- Starting with a bang!!!!!!!!
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Customer Reviews:
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
The Hyperclan makes an appearance to out-Justice League the JLA. With clever PR and some stunts people start to believe in them.
Batman knows something smells, I mean, a Darknight Detective can spot an invasion plan by shapeshifting superpowered aliens a mile off. He also has mullet-enhanced Superman to help him with the beatdown.
What to do with them afterwards is a big problem.
I love the Justice league.......2007-05-13
Wasn't as perfect as I wanted it to be, but always pleases, good buy
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Great artistry, predicatable story, glad the JLA seven are back together.......2006-12-10
This book was originally JLA #1-#4.
It's great to have Superman, Batman, WonderWoman, Flash, Green Latern, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter reunited again. With this much power, you have to have large enemies. Unfortunately the story of an alien race coming to invade is tired and predictable.
Batman has a great part in this story, as he usually is overshadowed by the others. And the balance of Flash and the young Green Latern's goofiness vs. the seriousness of the others always makes this team work great.
My son's favorate pane: page 82, of course with Flash and GL ("low quality finish, Lantern." "Yeah? Kiss my ring, buddy". My is on 83, an excellent drawing of WonderWoman battling Primaid.
Fantastic artistry, all of the JLA members are drawn superbly. Hoping the story gets better with the next one.
Almost as good as a super-hero comic can get!.......2005-07-31
"JLA: New World Order" reprints issues 1 to 4 of DC Comics' monthly JLA series. For those who might be new to comics, the Justice League of America has been published in one form or another since 1960, and was usually composed of the best and brightest of DC's superhero stars. Pick up most any issue of the old "Justice League of America" comic, at least from its first two decades of publication, and you could expect to find some combination of DC's most recognizable characters -- Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern -- plus a few of the tried-and-true second-stringers (Firestorm, Red Tornado, Zatanna, et al.) taking on some mind-boggling menace to time, space, and the American way that no single hero could stand against.
That was how it was, that was how it should be, and that is how Grant Morrison made it again, only smarter, snazzier, and more mind-bogglingly menacing than before. You see, from the mid-1980s on, many of DC's writers and editors developed a parochial, territorial view toward the company's top tier of characters, which cut them out of JLA membership: "Batman fights street crime, not starfish-shaped aliens, so he can't be in the JLA," or, "Nobody knows how to write Wonder Woman but me, so she can't be in the JLA," were actual policies governing which heroes could appear in which books, believe it or not. By 1983, Aquaman (!!!) was the biggest star in the JLA line-up. One of the "big guns" might stop by as a guest star for a few issues, but that was about it. Sales plummeted. No one seemed to wonder why. It just somehow became a fact of life that the freakin' JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA was perennially a third-rate title.
In 1996, however, the Justice League's savior arrived in the form of Scottish writer Grant Morrison. Previously known for writing "mature" (i.e., artsy and pretentious) comics such as "Doom Patrol" and "Arkham Asylum," Grant stepped into mainstream superheroics with a bang by reuniting the original seven JLA members, pitting them against a big league outer-space menace (this story's villains, the Orwellian would-be superheroes known as the Hyperclan), and letting the story roll with the speed of a cosmic treadmill. The readers responded deservedly with dollops of their hard-earned cash and made JLA one of comics' flagship titles.
"JLA: New World Order" is quite possibly a Justice League fan's ultimate story. It has all the best features of a smart sci-fi action movie (think "Terminator" or "Aliens"), stars the World's Greatest Super-Heroes, and was written under grey, Scottish skies by a writer who publicly condones the use of psychedelic drugs. I would not be able to praise it enough, but for two things: artist Howard Porter renders his figures somewhat stiffly (though he has improved with time) and writer Morrison can never think of anything cool for Wonder Woman to do -- almost a case of criminal neglect in my opinion. Nevertheless, "New World Order" gives a spark to DC's characters and a frenetic style to superhero action that has not been seen in comics since the 1960s. I recommend this to all superhero fans WITHOUT RESERVATION.
Starting with a bang!!!!!!!!.......2005-05-04
This was an excellent begining for what has gone to be, in my opnion, the best comic on the market today. After all these years the book continues to be awesome( with the exception of the Tenth Circle). This was truly a great sign of things to come.
Book Description
China is the world's number-one growth story now. But how is it that China has achieved such quick growth in this era? How is it that made-in-China products can flood the globe? Is a trade war going to happen? Or is a new world order in the making? This second volume of a trilogy-by Chinese journalist/consultant George Zhibin Gu-aims to answer these questions and more.
Today, more than a half-million overseas companies conduct business inside China. Learn about all the opportunities this exploding market presents, including banking, insurance, and stock market, as well as the yuan and trade and cross-border business issues. Moreover, it contains extensive studies on China's political-economic reform as well as evolving international relations.
This volume addresses eight key topics:
I. China's New Role in the World Development
II. The Yuan, Trade, and Investment
III. China's Fast-Changing Society, Politics, and Economy (in light of Chinese and global history)
IV. China's Banking, Insurance, and Stock Market Reforms
V. Chinese Multinationals vs. Global Giants
VI. The Taiwan Issue: Current Affairs and Trends (federation as an alternate way for unity)
VII. India vs. China: Moving Ahead at the Same Time
VIII. The Japan-China Issue: Evolving Relations in Light of History
Today, all nations increasingly rely on one another for development, a trend that will only strengthen as time passes. As a saying goes, "The future is being shaped today." This book will appeal to readers everywhere regardless of their particular interests.
Customer Reviews:
Cooking With the Iron Rice Bowl.......2007-03-27
Part reference, part musing, part insightful and timely analysis, George Zhibin Gu's latest book "China and the New World Order: How Entrepreneurship, Globalization, and Borderless Business are Reshaping China and the World" is a welcome and refreshing read among the endless new titles printed on China today.
Picking up on a focus of his previous book "China's Global Reach...," Gu goes further and identifies the chief impediment to China's latest and perhaps most difficult transition as the Chinese state itself. Gu reveals the seemingly historical inevitability of China's vast government apparatus but explains that Communist Party bureaucracy is unique in Chinese experience in the size and scope of its all-encompassing control.
In topics relative to today's readers Gu ably demonstrates through the book that changes in China come from the revived entrepreneurial instinct of the Chinese. Along with huge foreign investment China's ever-growing private sector is the outside influence that is challenging Chinese bureaucracy as never before. But while the Chinese people struggle to create a law-based society and break the bureaucracy's grip on all aspects of economic life, the Chinese state seeks an equal footing among world national powers.
"China and the New World Order" is nicely segmented into short but highly relevant chapters. As in his earlier works Gu deftly examines the pros and cons of numerous hot-button issues on China. For example he takes on the Taiwan - China knot and proposes an interesting solution, a federation or federal system as a means toward meaningful (and mutually beneficial) reunification although his federal system shares more similarity to a commonwealth in the opinion of this reviewer. Gu's look at delicate state of Japan and China relations reveals that Japan remains as apprehensive over Chinese growth and potential as it was in the past. In examining the India versus China debate Gu shows that there is far less competition (as Western press prefers to portray it) and more similarities between the two giants of Asia.
There is plenty of current information here and the detailed contents and summaries make the book a good quick reference for anyone with an interest in what's happening right now in China. And there are goodies such as a lengthy interview with Mark Mobius and a foreword by Hoover Institute fellow William Ratliff.
At one point in his analysis, Gu intriguingly compares the struggle in China to the old European church-state alliance. With that view in mind, what may be needed next and with luck what Chinese entrepreneurs may succeed in bringing is a Chinese "Glorious Revolution."
The most important book I read in the last 5 years.......2006-12-25
This new book from Dr. George Zhibin Gu is a geo-economics and geopolitical masterpiece from an insider, someone that thrives his consulting work and daily life inside China, not writing or comment from a comfortable chair in London or New York paid by a western think tank, or only for academic proposals. His challenge is to write for a broad audience out of China. I must refer his clever suggestions about Taiwan - a political proposal for a a federation - and the way he sees the go global from Chinese emergent multinationals. It is needed a lot of courage for an insider to be so clear in his proposals and to identify the old Chinese problem - bureaucracy, the same that stopped admiral Cheng Ho and the Discoveries in the XV Century, that closed China for so many centuries and gave an opportunity for foreign powers to humiliate China, hyper-bureaucracy that in the Mao period pulled China for chaos and economic and social distress. China and the New World Order is a must reading. Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, editor of www.gurusonline.tv and translator of Made in China (published in Portuguese language).
Is a new world order in the making?...It might just happen........2006-12-15
Base on the number of book in relation to this matter so far I believe that no one has come close to capturing "new China's" spirit and meaning as Gu. After reading his second volume I found it to be hugely insightful on the current events of China and global affairs. It greatly explores the key factors that shape Chinese and global development in the next stages. It gives tremendous info and analysis on the Chinese government, politics, business and economy for any one's interest.
There's a huge amount of info on foreign businesses inside China. You will be able to see about twenty five American and global multinationals inside of China that are studied. In the meantime it gives us a very provocative analysis on China's new role in the world. Gu details this general picture of how China is walking away from a practical society and embracing an open, restless and dynamic society. It claims that an overextended, self-appointed bureaucracy remains the key problem for China. To overcome countless technical barriers, greater openness, entrepreneurship and global involvement is all needed. Again, it's very insightful on the issues between China, Taiwan, Japan, India and West. I will add that his analyses on Japan-China line up are very interesting as well as Taiwan. There' a tremendous amount of info and analysis on China's financial, banking, insurance and stock market.
Author George Zhibin Gu is a very outspoken and a well known Chinese journalist who has generally covered mergers and acquisitions, capital activities, business expansion, and restructuring. He's an insider who gives us scrupulous examination on current China and global affairs which is more than a reason why you should grab hold to this book.
Insightful and Intelligent.......2006-12-11
George Gu provides a depth of understanding that distinguishes his work from most other business books. His wide network of contacts gives insight into emerging trends. He provides useful context that western authors often lack and Chinese authors frequently take for granted.
Prepare for the Dragon Market - Winston Ma, Author of "Investing in China: New Opportunities in a Transforming Stock Market.......2006-11-07
For the international investor community, "Investing in China" in the new century is more or less a one-way investment and capital flow. Mr. Gu's book, however, looks one step further to explore how all these interactions would reshape the global horizon, both for China and the rest of the world.
In fact, China's outward influence is increasingly obvious. For instance, whether China would diversify its foreign currency reserve -- and consequently whether China will enter into the gold market to hedge its US dollar exposure -- has profound implications in the global financial markets.
Comparing to many other books on China, Mr. Gu's book has a truly "authentic Chinese" flavor. The reason is obvious: He is an INSIDER. As a native Chinese, he captures the spirit of China's latest developments in its not-too-short historic context.
Book Description
Ralph Epperson has spent years reserching the history of the two sides of the Great Seal, and has discovered that those who designed them committed America to what has been called "A Secret Destiny". This future destiny is so unpleasant that those who wanted the change it entails had to conceal that truth in symbols.
Customer Reviews:
Missed the mark [of the beast] unfortunately.......2006-11-28
Epperson's book NWO seems like a good idea, but the problem is when you research his quotations you will find that they are taken out of context to advance his viewpoint, however, in the scheme of things, Epperson doesn't bring facts to support his theory, which may be true to some extend. Certainly there are business people that seek only to advance their greed and power, but that blame cannot solely be put on Freemasons, if at all.
Freemasons seek light, which in Latin is translated into Lucifer (i.e. light bringer). How Epperson comes to the conclusion of Masons seeking light [knowledge] to somehow equal Satan worshippers is beyond me, but it just shows how his conclusions are wrong, and if anyone bothered to read the sources of his quotes from books like Morals and Dogma (Pike) they would reach the conclusion that Epperson is indeed wrong. However, since most will not take the time out to do their own research they will buy into this nonsensical rhetoric.
The New World Order.......2006-04-21
Let us begin by getting one thing straight. There is a New World Order.
Sadly the subject naturally attracts a lot of paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists who make mincemeat of the solid facts and compelling evidence that is right there before all our eyes. This book is no exception. Frankly it is almost impossible to find a single decent unpolluted source on the New World Order so I give this book four out of five.
It is worth a read. Many books on this subject are worth a read, though the proportions of raving and utter nonsense vary.
Why are the Star of David and the pyramid and the blazing eye of God on the Great Seal of the United States? Who or what is "Lucifer?" The answers are linked to the New World Order but the links are almost always taken wildly out of context by frankly quite delusional people.
The Star of David, the hexagram, is about Freemasonry and the Temple of Solomon. It does have connotations within witchcraft but that's because the covens of witch "Craft" and the Lodges of the Masonic "Craft" intermingled in the days when both had to hide their pentagrams and elabourate rituals in order to survive. The pentagram is not about satan it is about the human form as depicted by Da Vinci. It is about the universal life force and the creative principle. The pyramid arises from Freemasonry and the quasi-Freemasonry of the Illuminati, both of whom once had the mistaken belief that the Hebrews built the Pyramids (There is no historical evidence for this) and both of whom use analogies about architectural perfection in their philosophy. The blazing eye of God is also Masonic and also found its way into the Illuminism movement that infiltrated the Craft.
Lucifer is not a serpent of all-devouring evil. Wake up and flip the universe the right way around! Lucifer literally means "giver of light" as in source of knowledge. Snakes get rather bad press but Moses used one, the therapeutae used the symbol of the snake-bound staff/caduceus and you'll see this on most ambulences around the world thanks to the widespread influence of the Knights Templar who were exposed to certain ancient teachings in medieval times. Lucifer pointed out to Adam and Eve that God was lying to them: they wouldn't die of eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge - rather they would come to know themselves. ("Know Thyself" was later the sacred command given to devotees at the temple of the oracle at Delphi and in their wisdom the greatest philosophers, including Socrates and Pythagoras repeated it to those who had ears.) When Adam and Eve had self-knowledge they realised they were just naked cattle in a great big farm of delusion and ignorance.
If you really want to understand the ancient omnipresent themes of healing, medicine, life, creation and their symbols - the ankh, the red cross and the snaked caduceus - then you might start here because your journey of discovery may brush against the New World Order. But then it will take you far beyond.
The myth of Adam and Eve ends with the first ever enlightened human beings thrown out of what they thought was heaven on earth.
Ignorance is bliss ...
... isn't it? ...
on point.......2005-10-15
everything in here is real. just his timing was off; but only by a year, really... cuz in 1991 Bush announced the New World Order. epperson called 1990 as the year. great, scary, worthwhile read
Wish it was better.........2005-09-19
The writing style is fine, the research is fair to good compared to others in the field, but he does anyone who is interested in real history a great disservice in promoting this work, because of his horribly shoddy jumps in logic.
Even on points that I would agree with him on, or that have been explained and researched much better elsewhere, I can not support him on because of his almost purposeful misreadings as quotes, his constant ruling out of alternatives, and dictums that this is 'necessary' or 'obvious', when it is no such thing.
Any first year philosophy or debate student could rip him and his case to shreds, which is a shame, since some of the research is on the right track and quite good.
So, I'd skip this one.. his presentation style makes it too hard to be able to tell which points are ludicrous and which are valid.
THE CONSPIRACY IS NOT A THEORY!.......2005-06-08
This book is an excellent introduction to the New World Order conspiracy that is being played out right before our eyes. Mr. Epperson does a brilliant job of tying together many loose threads. He clearly did exhaustive research on the topic, and goes to great lengths to provide clear documentation throughout this very scholarly work. Exploring a subject like the esoteric is a vast undertaking, and the subject is one not easily understood. However, Mr. Epperson has done an outstanding job of explaining these tenets to those of us who might be new to the subject. From the ancient to the modern, he ties it all together and provides a clear picture of how we have come to this point in time - the New World Order. Once you read this book, you will never look at anything the same again. A MUST READ for those wanting to understand today's world.
Book Description
Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It's not a collection of nation states that communicate through presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, and the United Nations. Nor is it a clique of NGOs. It is governance through a complex global web of "government networks."
Slaughter provides the most compelling and authoritative description to date of a world in which government officials--police investigators, financial regulators, even judges and legislators--exchange information and coordinate activity across national borders to tackle crime, terrorism, and the routine daily grind of international interactions. National and international judges and regulators can also work closely together to enforce international agreements more effectively than ever before. These networks, which can range from a group of constitutional judges exchanging opinions across borders to more established organizations such as the G8 or the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, make things happen--and they frequently make good things happen. But they are underappreciated and, worse, underused to address the challenges facing the world today.
The modern political world, then, consists of states whose component parts are fast becoming as important as their central leadership. Slaughter not only describes these networks but also sets forth a blueprint for how they can better the world. Despite questions of democratic accountability, this new world order is not one in which some "world government" enforces global dictates. The governments we already have at home are our best hope for tackling the problems we face abroad, in a networked world order.
Customer Reviews:
Exceptional Read.......2005-02-10
This book is a must-read for any student of International Affairs. By providing historical and present-day examples of international and transnational relations among states, Dean Slaughter brilliantly lays the framework and provides justification for a new disaggregated, effective, and just world order. Both synoptic in organization and substantive throughout, this book will prove valuable to all readers regardless of political affiliation or school of thought.
Highly Recommended!.......2004-10-25
This excellent, thought-provoking analysis covers a widespread but little studied shift in the way the world works. The advance of international communications, technology, economics and finance networks has had an unmistakable effect on business and industry. The ways states function has also changed - shifting the operation of the world order. Author Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is on expert ground. She asserts that networks of financiers, regulators, judges and even legislators can solve problems that would be intractable if left only to traditional states and familiar international organizations. She provides many examples of such networks, notes the criticism against them and suggests norms to govern their conduct. Her book is not light reading. Readers need some familiarity with international organizations and institutions (sometimes cited by unexplained acronyms), but we highly recommend this book to sophisticated observers of international policy.
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