"The recently bygone bipolar world of the Cold War looks simple in
comparison to the complexities of today's globalizing era.
Professor James Rosenau, in this wide-ranging masterwork of
conceptual synthesis, develops a new vocabulary--distant
proximities, fragmegration, glocalization--to help us explore the
contradictory impact on our times of worldwide economic and
electronic integration; religious, ethnic, and tribal hatreds;
information overload; and terrorism. Individuals, communities,
nation-states, and international structures are all struggling to
accommodate the dynamics of today's unprecedented social and
economic change. Rosenau's powerful yet nuanced analysis
encompasses the agenda of our times--income disparities, human
rights violations, corruption, high tech violence--and he leaves us
pondering whether global and community governance will be able to
cope with the challenges of a fragmegrative world."--Richard H.
Solomon, President, U.S. Institute of Peace
"For some years now, James N. Rosenau has been writing
imaginatively about the systemic role of empowered individuals on
the world stage, utilizing as his organizing principle possible
complementarities in opposing tendencies--as in the title of this
latest book. But never before has his work seemed so relevant to
this morning's headline while probing so deeply into the very
foundations of social space/time. And behind it all stands an
enduring commitment to open-minded inquiry: 'checkableupableness, '
Rosenau calls it. In a discipline consumed by Methodenstreite, here
is an important book that at once soars above, and uncovers
powerful fields of forces beneath, the standard fare."--John Gerard
Ruggie, HarvardUniversity
"Like so much of Rosenau's work, "Distant Proximities" is
enormously thoughtful and insightful. It pushes the way we think
about global politics dramatically beyond the traditional or
eurocentric model of states in a state system and, though highly
abstract, actually deals with issues that matter to most people in
today's globalizing world. It is classically Rosenau."--Richard W.
Mansbach, Iowa State University, author of "Politics, Authority,
Identity, and Change"
"This book contains all of Rosenau's strengths. It is
imaginative--replete with novel insights, concepts, and ideas. It
looks to the future rather than to the past. It is based on a very
broad literature that goes far beyond normal disciplinary confines.
Rosenau always searches for the new and interesting, and for those
anomalies that set the mind to look for explanations. He takes his
own advice to attempt 'theoretical jailbreaks, ' and to dare to
tread where others are more timid. The book is very well written,
and its author is to be applauded for getting his readers to 'think
outside the box.'"--Kal Holsti, University of British Columbia,
author of "The State, War, and the State of War"
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