Global Trends

Catalog description

Takes a broad look at emerging global patterns as they relate to governance, security and social order. Examines a number of interrelated topics, including: globalization and various forms of backlash; populist movements; socioeconomic inequality both within and between societies; the shifting of economic power from the global west to the global east; demographic changes and the resource strain that results; democratic backsliding, protests and social unrest; and the weakening of state-society relations. Situates these conflicting trends within a bigger question: What does it all mean for global stability? Do these new challenges signify the erosion of an aging order, and if so, what emerges from the upheaval?