Universal Foreigner

The Individual and the World

Nonfiction, History, Asian, China, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, International Relations, Science & Nature, Science

• Author: Robert W Cox
• ISBN: 9789814452724
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication: November 15, 2013
• Imprint: WSPC
• Language: English

The book shows one individual's (the author) experience of the world, through contacts with government officials and scholars in the Middle East and Asia, Europe and Latin America during the post-Second World War years up to the later 1960s; and then that individual's reflections and study during the succeeding decades, up to and including the first decade of the 21st century, concerning the future of the world and the critical choices that confront the world both in inter-state relations and in maintaining the security of the biosphere.

Contents:

• The Individual and the World
• The Canadian Context
• Geneva
• Morse
• 1968
• Ambivalence
• Transition
• Thought and Reality
• The 1970s
• The Emergence of China
• Civilizations and World Order
• Synthesis

Readership: General readers interested in international relations, political science, and China studies.
Key Features:

• The book is sui generis of its kind, falling between the categories of memoir and contemporary history
• It would be of interest to all who are concerned with where the world is going as well as those who follow change in the major countries and regions of the world