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»Arm an geschichtlichen Katastrophen war dieses Jahrhundert wahrlich nicht: zwei Weltkriege, Auschwitz, Nagasaki, dann Harrisburg und Bhopal, nun Tschernobyl. Das zwingt zur Behutsamkeit der Wortwahl und schärft den Blick für die historischen Besonderheiten. Alles Leid, alle Not, alle Gewalt, die Menschen Menschen zugefügt haben, kannt bisher nur die Kategorien der †ºanderen†¹ - Juden, Schwarze, Frauen, Asylanten, Dissidenten, Kommunisten usw.«

This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.

This brilliant new book by one of Europe''s leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power in the global age and assesses the influence of the ever-expanding counter-powers. The author puts forward the provocative thesis that in an age of global crises and risks, a politics of ""golden handcuffs"" - the creation of a dense network of transnational interdependencies - is exactly what is needed in order to regain natio