Worlds in Collision

AMITAV ACHARYA Deputy Director, Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore ABDULLAH AHMED AN-NA'IM Professor of Law, Emory University MICHAEL BYERS Director, JD/LL.M. Program in Comparative and International Law, Duke Law School DESMOND BALL Professor, School of Politics, University of New South Wales BENJAMIN BARBER Political Theorist SISSELA BOK Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies CHRIS BROWN Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics BARRY BUZAN Research Professor of International Studies, University of Westminster NOAM CHOMSKY Professor of Linguistics, MIT MICHAEL COX Professor of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth JAMES DER DERIAN Professor of Political Science, Amherst JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago CYNTHIA ENLOE Professor of Government and Director, Women's Studies, Clarke University RICHARD FALK Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University LAWRENCE FREEDMAN Professor of War Studies, Kings College, London University FRANCIS FUKUYAMA Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, John Hopkins University COLIN GRAY Professor of Strategic Studies, University of Reading FRED HALLIDAY Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics ROBERT O.KEOHANE Professor of Political Science, Duke University ANDREW LINKLATER Chair in International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth WILLIAM MALEY Associate Professor, School of Politics, University of New South Wales C.RAJA MOHAN Strategic Affairs Editor, The Hindu newspaper, New Delhi BHIKHU PAREKH Fellow, Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of the Learned Societies for Social Sciences PAUL ROGERS Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford AVI SHLAIM Fellow, St Antony's College, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford STEVE SMITH Professor of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Professor at Binghampton, State University of New York KENNETH WALTZ Ford Professor of Political Science, University College, Berkeley PATRICIA WILLIAMS James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University

Bringing together an outstanding group of thinkers, Worlds in Collision is the essential book for understanding the debate about the future of global order in the wake of international terrorism and the war in Afghanistan.Bringing together an outstanding group of thinkers, Worlds in Collision is the essential book for understanding the debate about the future of global order in the wake of international terrorism and the war in Afghanistan. For years to come, if not decades, the 'war on terrorism' will be the defining paradigm in the struggle for global order. When the victim of such horrific terror attacks happens to be the world's only superpower, the agenda is set for the future global order. This book, offering a comprehensive and provocative collection of viewpoints from leading intellectuals from a number of countries, will help readers understand the ways in which our worlds collided on September 11, 2001. Not only does it comprehensively address the first phase of the war against international terrorism, the book also looks at the wider regional and global ramifications. Worlds in Collision is ultimately about more than the war on terrorism, it concerns itself with the possibilities for re-shaping global order on the basis of new kinds of politics.