William H. Thornton Fire on the Rim (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Fire on the RimCondition: NewSubtitle: The Cultural Dynamics of East/West Power PoliticsISBN-10: 0742517063EAN: 9780742517066ISBN: 9780742517066Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/23/2002Description: Beginning where Huntington's Clash of Civilizations ends, Fire on the Rim is a call to action, not fatalism; to cultural dialogue, not militancy. However, in rejecting the entrenched pessimism of cultural realists such as Huntington and Kaplan, William Thornton is equally careful to avoid the teleological optimism of a Francis Fukuyama, Thomas Friedman, or even an Anthony Giddens. He argues that the United States is now paying, in terms of "blowback," a long-term price for short-term Cold War and subsequent globalist strategies—mistakes that were chosen, not fated. Yet mending these errors will require nothing less than a paradigm shift in geopolitical (post-New World Order) and geoeconomic (post-neoliberal) thought. Fire instantiates this shift within the specific context of the Pacific Rim. In defiance of ideological convention, it combines a call for social justice, cultural difference, and environmental sustainability with a sober recognition of the need for continued balance of power geopolitics, soft and hard. The author's iconoclastic melding of idealist and realist elements will provoke the Right and Left alike, but his call for moral realism is a vital step toward an Asia policy fit for the twenty-first century.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 19mmItem Weight: 431gAuthor: William H. ThorntonContributor: Bryan Turner (Foreword by)Genre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific PerspectivesTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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