The Declining World Order: America’s Imperial Geopolitics

This work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency to override the role of sovereign territorial states. Falk examines the changing role of the state, the relevance of institutions, the role of individuals and the importance of the worldwide religious resurgence, with its positive and negative implications. He also considers the post-modern geopolitics of the Bush presidency, with its emphasis on the militarization of space, the control of oil in the Middle East, and its reliance on military capabilities so superior to that of other states as to make any challenge impractical.

Richard Falk is Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus at Princeton University where he was a member of the faculty for forty years. He has been a Visiting Professor in the Global Studies Program of the University of California at Santa Barbara for the last three years. His most recent books are THE GREAT TERROR WAR (2003) and RELIGION AND HUMANE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE (2001). He serves as Chair of the Board for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and is Chair of the Editorial Board of World Editorial and International Law. He is on the Editorial Board of The Nationa and an Honorary Editor of the American Journal of International Law.