A New World Order

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A New World Order (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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In A New World Order, Anne-Marie Slaughter gives a detailed account of global politics in transformation. Slaughter, who holds a law degree as well as a Ph.D in international relations, describes a world in which the predominance of unitary nation states is being complemented, and perhaps even partly supplanted, by a system of multiple networks in which disaggregated nation states (that is, agencies and branches within national governments, as opposed to heads of state) interact cooperatively with one another as well as with international organizations. Because news media and...

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