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Introduction: global political economy, capitalism and popular culture -- Money and desire -- Bodies and possessions -- Development and motion -- Technology and alienation -- States and regulations -- Economy and gender -- Capitalism and disruption -- Through the mirror, darkly

Intro -- AFTER AUTHORITY: War, Peace, and Global Politicsin the 21st Century -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. THEORY OF GLOBAL POLITICS -- 2. THE WORRIES OF NATIONS -- 3. THE INSECURITY DILEMMA -- 4. ARMS AND AFFLUENCE -- 5. MARKETS, THE STATE, AND WAR -- 6. THE SOCIAL CONTRACTION -- 7. THE PRINC(IPAL) -- 8. POLITICS AMONG PEOPLE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

On security / Ronnie D. Lipschutz. -- The value of security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietsche, and Baudrillard / James Der Derian. -- Securitization and desecuritization / Ole Waever. -- Political fission: State structure, civil society, and nuclear weapons in the United States / Daniel Deudney. -- Grassroots statecraft and citizens' challenges to U.S. National security policy / Pearl-Alice Marsh. -- Hawks, doves, but no owls: International economic interdependence and construction of the new security dilemma / Beverly Crawford. -- Security, the state, the "New World Order" and beyond / Barry Buzan. -- Negotiating the boundaries of difference and security at millennium's end / Ronnie D. Lipschutz

In this article, I explore four California-based eco-utopias: The Earth Abides (George Stewart, 1949), Ecotopia (Ernest Callenbach, 1975), Pacific Edge (Kim Stanley Robinson, 1990), and Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992). All four novels were written during, and deeply informed by, the Cold War (Although published in 1992, Snow Crash was clearly written toward the end of the Cold War and in the shadow of Soviet implosion), against a backdrop of imminent nuclear holocaust and a doubtful future. Since then, climate change has replaced the nuclear threat as a looming existential dilemma, on which a good deal of writing about the future is focused. Almost 70 years after the appearance of The Earth Abides, and 40 years after the publication of Ecotopia, eco-utopian imaginaries now seem both poignant yet more necessary than ever, given the tension between the anti-environmental proclivities of the Trump Administration, on the one hand, and the tendency of climate change to suck all of the air out of the room, on the other. And with drought, fire, flood, wind and climate change so much in the news, it is increasingly difficult to imagine eco-utopias of any sort; certainly they are not part of the contemporary zeitgeist—except in the minds of architects, bees and futurists, perhaps. But does this mean there is no point in thinking about them, or seeking insights that might make our future more sustainable? This article represents an attempt to revive eco-utopian visions and learn from them.