By: Richard A. Falk (Editor), R. B. J. Walker (Editor), Lester Edwin J. Ruiz (Editor)

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Many symbolic thresholds of doom associated with the advent of a new century have now been crossed by humanity with surprising ease. Prognosticators and Doomsday cults were easily off base, but even the more mundane anxieties about the Y2K breakdown turned out to be either self-serving schemes or exaggerated delusions. Unfortunately, this successful symbolic rite of passage is not reassuring in any profound respect. The uncertainties, vulnerabilities, and cruelties of our unfolding world persist with undiminished intensity.
"Re-Framing the" "International" insists that, if we are to properly face the challenges of the coming century, we need to re-examine international politics and development through the prism of ethics and morality. International relations must now contend with a widening circle of participants reflecting the diversity and unevenness of status, memory, gender, race, culture and class. Contributors to this volume challenge North America's privileged position in world politics, suggest initiatives for improving the quality of human existence in tangible ways, and critique the conventional wisdom on how we think we can create peace and justice. This text shows that, when we develop projects for world reform, we must remember that the most basic prevailing assumptions of modern law, politics, and culture are by no means as obvious, natural, or progressive as we formerly thought.

"An original and exciting contribution to the urgent task of interrogating the political, cultural and social practices that underpin international law and the framing of the international more generally. The transformations brought about by globalization have made of international law one of the crucial sites for key principles of the legal and political order.."
-Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, The University of Chicago, and author of "Guests and Aliens
"Our understanding of international law and world politics have long suffered from a 'hardening of the categories.' "Reframing the International offers a refreshing and important antidote to this malady. It interrogates many of our most cherished orientations and demonstrates how reframing inquiry into global political life allows greater insight and opens new possibilities for action.."
-Paul Wapner, Associate Professor and Director, Global Environmental Politics Program, American University
"Our understanding of international law and world politics have long suffered from a 'hardening of the categories.' "Reframing the International offers a refreshing and important antidote to this malady. It interrogates many of our most cherished orientations and demonstrates how reframing inquiry into global political life allows greater insight and opens new possibilities for action.."
-Paul Wapner, Associate Professor and Director, Global Environmental Politics Program, American University
"The walls! The walls! Tear down those walls! Since the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, the walls of the 20th century have been closing back in. The siren calls of state, sovereignty, and securityare offered as comfort but they continue to pose, as ever, danger, violence, and imprisonment. "Reframing the International reminds us, pointedly, that the old truths of international relations are no answer to the new realities of the 21st century.."
-Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Stretch you mind with "Reframing the International as some of the most creative thinkers of our time launch the right conversations for understanding what is possible in overcoming the deeply imbedded structures of injustice that too often govern our lives and discourse.."
-John Cavanagh, Director, Institute for Policy Studies and co-author of "Field Guide to the Global Economy

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: The International and the Challenge of Speculative Reason	p. ix
After the Future: Enclosures, Connections, Politics	p. 3
"Tainted by Contingency": Retelling the Story of International Law	p. 26
Reframing the Legal Agenda of World Order in the Course of a Turbulent Century	p. 46
The Ideas of 1989: The Origins of the Concept of Global Civil Society	p. 70
Overcoming the Dysfunction of the Bifurcated Global System: The Promise of a Peoples Assembly	p. 83
Orders of Inhumanity	p. 107
From Modernization to Democratization: The Political Economy of the "New" International Law	p. 136
In Pursuit of the "Body Politic": Ethics, Spirituality, and Diaspora	p. 163
Conflict, Convergence, or Coexistence? The Relevance of Culture in Reframing World Order	p. 187
Feminist Futures: Contesting the Political	p. 218
About the Contributors	p. 249
Index	p. 251
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ISBN: 9780415931755
ISBN-10: 0415931754
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 272
Published: 28th June 2002
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2  x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.56