Shapes of a World to Come

In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 592-603

Abstract

No theory of world politics yet created is able to guide us into a new age, but scholars and statesmen persist in conceiving global designs that claim our attention. Many writers are tempted by a formidable problem: What is the "real" shape—or alternatively the preferred shape—of the world to come? The fruits they offer are varied in taste but often so appealing in appearance that students of international relations cannot refuse to try them.