Globalization: Power Authority and Legitimacy in Late Modernity

The second edition, Globalization: Power, Authority and Legitimacy in Late modernity, analysis the new pessimism that has descended on the globalized world. The America that was  once the bastion of hope, optimism and progress is now showing clear signs of a superpower in decline. The first sign of the American decline since 1941 in Pearl Harbor was the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001. The other signs are the Vietnamization of Iraq, a nuclear stand off with North Korea increasing trade imbalances with China and India, a stalemate with terrorists in Afghanistan the challenge of European protectionism a belligerent politics in the Middle East.