The collapse of globalism and the reinvention of the world - Saul, John Ralston 1947 (London Atlantic Books, 2005)
Pt. I. Context. A serpent in paradise ; A summary of the promised future ; What they said it would do ; What somebody forgot to mention ; A short history of economics becoming religion. -- Pt. II. The rise. 1971 ; The vacuum ; The king's foot ; Selected romantic enthusiasms ; The gathering force ; Crucifixion economics. -- Pt. III. The plateau. Success ; 1991 ; The ideology of progress ; 1995. -- Pt. IV. The fall. A negative equilibrium ; NGOs and God ; A chronology of decline ; A chronology of decline: the Malaysian breakout ; The end of belief ; India and China ; New Zealand flips again. -- Pt. V. And where are we going now? The new vacuum: an interregnum of morbid symptoms ; The new vacuum: is the nation-state back? ; Negative nationalism ; The normalization of irregular warfare ; Positive nationalism.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-297) and index.
Keywords: Globalization; Geopolitics; World politics -- 1989-; Nationalism; Sovereignty