TY - BOOK AU - Thornton,William H. AU - Thornton,Songok Han ED - Sage eBooks TI - Toward a geopolitics of hope SN - 9788132114031 (ebook) : AV - JC319 .T525 2012 U1 - 327.101 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - SAGE KW - Geopolitics KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Balance of power KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'Toward a Geopolitics of Hope' posits a world order marked less by univocal 'globalisation' than by a grating geopolitics of rival capitalisms. Now that China, Russia, and much of the undemocratic developing world have embraced capitalism, this new Second World can no longer be regarded as a fleeting phenomenon. Globalisation turns out to be anything but the steadfast ally of democratisation it purports to be. Indeed, the Western democratic experiment of the last two centuries is starting to look very tentative and parochial UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://sk.sagepub.com/books/toward-a-geopolitics-of-hope ER -