Toward a Geopolitics of Hope
- William H. Thornton - National Cheng Kung University
- Songok Han Thornton - National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
For this the West has nothing to blame but itself. In many respects the new Second World was spawned by First World neoliberal engagement. The Washington Consensus has not only brought the world to the brink of an intractable economic depression, but has played midwife to a chronic geopolitical crisis. Hope, however, is anything but defeatist in the face of this globalist impasse. It draws upon a host of non-Western reformisms—with special attention to those of India, Burma, and the Arab Spring—to forge a Global Third Way. Likewise its moral realism bridges the classic imperatives of Third World social justice and First World security. Its paramount goal is not just a new "soft power" politics, but a post-globalist geopolitics of hope.
| Introduction-Second World Redux: The Case for Moral Realism |
| After the American Century: The De-Westernization of Globalization |
| Russia Turns East: Putinism and the Making of Kremlin Capitalism |
| The New China Model: Power through Political Underdevelopment |
| Tibet's Long Shadow: China, India, and the Cold War over 'Asian Values' |
| Tibet of the South: Burma as Geopolitical Testing Ground |
| Indo-Globalization: India and the Crisis of Asian Democracy |
| Race to the Bottom: Globalization with Chinese Characteristics |
| Freedom without Borders: Lessons of the Arab Revolt for the Globalist West |
| Conclusion The Search for a Post-Globalist Third Way |
| Index |
A must-have on the reading list of an international relations theory academic, as it is for all foreign policy analysts and politicians. It is an incisive, thought provoking, and most certainly will hold much relevance in the theoretical conception and pragmatic reality of the world in times to come.
