A World Without Meaning: The Crisis of Meaning in International Politics

by Zaki Laïdi

In this provocative and incisive book, Zaki Laidi argues that as our world becomes ever larger, our ability to find meaning in it diminishes. With the end of communism came the end of the intimate alliance between power and ideology. No power in our globalised world can any longer claim to provide meaning. In despair we look back to old models (religious traditions, nationalism, ethnicity) to give us a sense of identity. But in a globalised world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415167183
• ISBN13: 9780415167185
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.5"