I discuss some of her insights in Chapters 3 and 5. The central thesis of this book is that the combination of the fall of the bipolar world system, the coming of the informa- tion revolution, and the emergence of postmodernist thinking has ushered in a new epoch. [...] The second event eroded the transnationalist aspects of the Islamic movements: in less than a decade after the death of the leader of the revolution, in the fall of 1998, the Iranian government dis- associated itself from the fatwa on the life of the British writer Salman Rushdie, who had been found guilty of insulting Mus- lims and their religion (Mozaffari 1998b). [...] The world was divided between the allied forces of noncommunist countries under the leadership of the United States of America, symbolized by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato), and the communist countries under the leader- ship of the Soviet Union, symbolized by the Warsaw Pact. [...] Symbolically, three events should be singled out as main indicators of the new creation: the fall of the Soviet Union, the death of Khomeini, and the emergence of the Internet. [...] The third event, the birth of the Internet, brought the promise of a new way of thinking and a new sphere for both the vita activa and the vita contemplativa (the active life and the contemplative one), to recall the con- cepts used by Hannah Arendt (1957).5 The birth of the Internet could not have come about without the melding of communica- tions hardware and the software of computer data-proces
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Preface 10
- Chapter 1: The New Creation 16
- A new world in the making 16
- Approach and method 25
- Chapter 2: A Theory of Globalization 34
- Political approach, the end of civility 35
- Economic approach, the end of geography 39
- Cultural approach, the end of objectivity 41
- Religious and secular radical approach, the end of inquiry 45
- Critique of these paradigms 47
- Civilizational approach, the restoration of politics 58
- Chapter 3: The Coming of the Information Civilization 78
- Technological society 80
- The information revolution 85
- Features of the new civilization 88
- Political pluralism, multilateralism 93
- Economic pluaralism, production sharing 95
- Cultural pluralism, multiculturalism 98
- The global public sphere, the Internet 99
- Clash or dialogue of civilizations 103
- Chapter 4: The Future of Global Governance 110
- Challenges 112
- Responses 119
- Chapter 5: Conclusion 142
- Bibliography 148
- Index 160
- A 160
- B 160
- C 160
- D 161
- E 161
- F 161
- G 161
- H 161
- I 162
- J 162
- K 162
- L 162
- M 162
- N 163
- O 163
- P 163
- Q 164
- R 164
- S 164
- T 164
- U 164
- V 164
- W 164
- Z 164
