People Count!: Networked Individuals in Global Politics

by James N. Rosenau

Overview

People Count! rests on a single but important premise: As the world'shrinks and becomes ever more complex, so have people-as "networked individuals"-become ever more central to the course of events. This book seeks to depict a new era by analyzing the basic roles people occupy in their family, community, and society, including the wider world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594514142
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/30/2007
Series:	International Studies Intensives
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James N. Rosenau is University Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is author of numerous books on global affairs including the brilliant precursor to People Count!, Distant Proximities: Dynamics beyond Globalization (Princeton University Press 2003).

Table of Contents

Chapter One Teachers and Scholars; Chapter Two Roles in a Fragmegrative World; Chapter Three The Skill Revolution; Chapter Four Demographic Trends; Part I People on the Move; Chapter Five Citizens; Chapter Six Immigrants and Diaspora; Chapter Seven Hybrids and Cosmopolitans; Chapter Eight Travelers; Chapter Nine Activists; Chapter Ten Terrorists; Part II People at Work; Chapter Eleven Soldiers; Chapter Twelve Workers; Chapter Thirteen Business Executives; Chapter Fourteen Public Officials; Chapter Fifteen Consumers; Part III People in Society and Culture; Chapter Sixteen Networkers; Chapter Seventeen Journalists and Bloggers; Chapter Eighteen Worshippers; Chapter Nineteen Students; Chapter Twenty Artists; Part IV People in Unorganized Groupings; Chapter Twenty-One Marginals; Chapter Twenty-Two Generations; Chapter Twenty-Three Classes; Chapter Twenty-Four Recounted People;

Editorial Reviews

For five decades Jim Rosenau has made scholars and students look at international relations in new and creative ways. In the compelling and accessible People Count!, he continues to do so, reorienting our thinking about IR to the micro-level–where individuals ‘shape and are shaped by the macro organizations to which they belong.’”
—Harvey Starr, University of South Carolina

“People Count is a welcome addition to the small but rapidly growing scholarly and instructional literature that aims to put people back into world politics.”
—Mary Ann Tetreault, Trinity University

“Read People Count! to find out how individuals and groups steer the big processes in international relations. A master scholar, Rosenau has written one of his best books. Truly a landmark work!”
—James H. Mittelman, American University

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