At century's end is a powerfull collection of essays and interviews by thirty of the world's top thinkers and leaders, providing insight on the course of the world at the end of the twentieth century. Never ponderous nor heavy, the writing is concise, informative, and thought-provoking, giving perspectives from many regions of the globe.
The distant origins of the present volume lie in an article entitled "The End of History?" which I wrote for the journal The national Interest in the summer of 1989. This was not to say that today's stable democracies, like the United States, France, or Switzerland, were not without injustice or seriuos social problems.
An overview of the nuclear era examines the confrontations, key decisions, and personalities involved with nuclear policy from the Roosevelt administration to Reagan's presidential terms.
This study is the result of a decision by Commonwealth Heads of Government at their 1983 Meeting in New Delhi. It was conceived in the framework of the Commonwealth's long-standing concern with the economic problems of its very many small member states. The 'vulnerability' of small states is the essential concept informing the enquiry and it is considered in Previous page.
For Fareed Zakaria, the great story of our times is ‘the rise of the rest’–the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya, which is generating a New global landscape. Global power is shifting, and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places: the tallest buildings, biggest dams, top-selling movies and most advanced mobile phones are all bei…