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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.