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The End of the Old Order ? Globalization and the Prospects for World Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

David Held  and
Anthony McGrew
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Abstract

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In reflecting upon the prospects for world order, in the concluding chapter of The Twenty Years' Crisis, E. H. Carr advised that ‘few things are permanent in history; and it would be rash to assume that the territorial unit of power is one of them’. Based upon his observation that world order was being reshaped by the contradictory imperatives of progressive economic integration and a ‘recrudescence of disintegrating tendencies’, Carr concluded with a confident prediction that ‘the concept of sovereignty is likely to become in the future even more blurred and indistinct than it is at present’.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , December 1998 , pp. 219 - 245
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press