Social futures, global visions /
edited by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara.
- 208 pages ; 24 cm
"This text was originally published as special issue 27:2 of Development and change ..."--T.p. verso. Papers presented at the UNRISD conference on "Rethinking Social Development" held in Copenhagen, Mar. 11-12, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Dharam Ghai -- Introduction / Cynthia Hewitt de Alcátara -- Economic opportunity, civil society and political liberty / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Palace fundamentalism and liberal democracy: oil, arms and irrationality / Fatema Mernissi -- The future of the state / Eric Hobsbawm -- The national question in Africa: internal imperatives / Wole Soyinka -- Positive aspects of Community and the dangers of fragmentation / Amitai Etzioni -- The perils of utopia: the Russian intelligentsia under communism and perestroika / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The debate on economic and social security in the late eighteenth century: lessons of a road not taken / Emma Rothschild -- Traditional co-operatives in modern japan: rethinking alternatives to cosmopolitanism and nativism / Tetsuo Najita -- Affluence, poverty, and the idea of a post-scarcity society / Anthony Giddens -- On the social costs of modernization: social disintegration, atomie/anomie and social development / Johan Galtung -- Introduction / Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara -- Economic opportunity, civil society and political liberty / Ralf Dahrendorf -- Palace fundamentalism and liberal democracy: oil, arms and irrationality / Fatema Mernissi -- The future of the state / Eric Hobsbawm -- The national question in Africa: internal imperatives / Wole Soyinka -- Positive aspects of community and the dangers of fragmentation / Amitai Etzioni -- The perils of utopia: the Russian intelligentsia under communism and perestroika / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The debate on economic and social security in the late 18th century: lessons of a road not taken / Emma Rothschild -- Traditional co-operatives in modern Japan: rethinking alternatives to cosmopolitanism and nativism / Tetsuo Najita -- Affluence, poverty and the idea of a post-scarcity society / Anthony Giddens -- On the social costs of modernization: social disintegration, atomie/anomie and social development / Johan Galtung.