Book Review: The World Transformed - 1945 to the Present
Book Review: The World Transformed - 1945 to the Present

Summary/Abstract: Current developments in the world, our economic, social and cultural possibilities are all together creating one of the most amazing periods in the whole history of humankind. We are witnesses of a turbulent progress since the post-war years, when countries are looking for their place and independence within increasingly interdependent world of states, organisations and many different international platforms influencing all aspects of everyday life. In order to name these powerful changes, the word globalisation was adopted, however, with no clear definition or boundaries. What exactly means this transformation process? Where are the boundaries after which we are speaking no longer about globalisation, but about new world order? Where is the end of an economic boom giving welfare to an unprecedented number of people on the one side, but deepening the gap between rich and poor on the other? These and many other questions implied by contemporary development are concerns of Professor Emeritus Michael H. Hunt in his recent publication The World Transformed

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