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The article considers the problem of the global environmental change and its consequences. The author puts the environmentalists' goals into the context of the geopolitical situation in the world-system and the structural features of the capitalist society. He suggests a complex view of coping with ecological difficulties, trying to combine intellectual, moral and political aspects of solving the said problems.

The article considers evolution of the global geopolitical structure in the second half of the 20th century using world-systems analysis elaborated by the author. On the basis of historical evidence the author makes a forecast of future development of the world economy and geopolitics for the following twenty years.

AN OLD AXIOM IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY CONSIDERS SPACE AS A REFLECTION OF SOCIETY. YET LIFE, AND CITIES, ARE ALWAYS TOO COMPLEX TO CAPTURED IN AXIOMS. THUS THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPACE AND SOCIETY, BETWEEN CITIES AND HISTORY, IS MORE A MATTER OF EXPRESSION THAN OF REFLECTION. THIS ARTICLE IS A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN EVOLUTION FROM THE STANDPOINT OF CONSIDERING THE COMPLEXITY OF INTERACTING TRENDS IN A GIVEN TIME-SPACE CONTEXT. THE AUTHOR APPLIES A MARXIAN THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS WHICH ARE TAKING PLACE IN WEST EUROPEAN CITIES.

Lecture given at 2Fifth anniversary celebrations of founding of Kyoto Seika University, which also fell on anniversaries of the 1968 revolutions and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Themes exploring the exhaustion of liberalism and social reformism are organised around these anniversaries: the era of hope and struggle for Enlightenment ideals, 1789-1945; the false realisation of Enlightenment hopes 1945-89; the 'Black Period' since then and choices available.

Discusses the role of liberal political philosophies in the development of nation states from the French Revolution to the fall of communism. Suggests that liberalism was the dominant ideology during the 200 years between those 2 events. (RSM)