1st Edition

Plunging to Leviathan? Exploring the World's Political Future

By Robert Bates Graber Copyright 2006
    146 Pages
    by Routledge

    146 Pages
    by Routledge

    "With his accustomed skill and ingenuity, Graber makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war." Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History Can we predict the world's political future? The surprising wealth of research critiqued in this book suggests that earlier assessments of world trends pointed too pessimistically toward the likelihood of a future repressive world-state. Offering an impressive analysis of long-term historical patterns, population, and social changes, Graber presents a fresh look at current trends.

    Chapter 1 Leviathan’s Embryo; Chapter 2 Plunging to Leviathan; Chapter 3 Century of Levitation?; Chapter 4 Prime Mover; Chapter 5 A Theory; Chapter 6 The Trillion-Soul Solution; Chapter 7 Pretty Puzzle; Chapter 8 Conquest’s End; Chapter 9 Comic Opera?; Chapter 10 Counting Coup; Chapter 11 Soft Landing; Chapter 12 Or Leviathan After All?;

    Biography

    Authored by Graber, Robert Bates

    "Making it fun (and even exciting), Robert Graber pursues here a very serious issue--the coming of a world state--and gives opposing sides of this debate fair and frequent airings. With his accustomed mathematical skill and ingenuity, he makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war. Even the skeptics--and I'm one--hope he's right."
    Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History