Contents:
Foreword by B S Chimni;
Preface;
Acknowledgements;
Part 1 The Shaping of International Law Geopolitical and Democratic Challenges;
1 Reframing the Legal Agenda of the World Order in the Course of a Turbulent Century;
2 International Law and the Future;
3 Orientalism and International Law;
Part 2 Reforming the UN Problems and Prospects;
1 Where is ?the Fork in the Road? Over the Horizon An Inquiry into the Failure of UN Reform;
2 The United Nations and Cosmopolitan Democracy Bad Dream Utopian Fantasy Political Project;
3 The United Nations System Prospects for Renewal;
Part 3 The Planetary Threats;
1 The Second Cycle of Ecological Urgency An Environmental Justice Perspective;
2 A Radical World Order Challenge Addressing Global Climate Change and the Threat of Nuclear Weapons;
Part 4 In the Aftermath of 911 Revisiting Gandhi;
1 Torture War and the Limits of Liberal Legality;
2 War and Peace in an Era of Terror and State Terrorism;
3 A New Gandhian Moment;
Part 5 Building a Global Ethos Cultural Pluralities Religious Resurgence Political Solidarity;
1 Globalisation from Below An Innovative Politics of Resistance;
2 A Worldwide Religious Resurgence in an Era of Globalisations and Apocalyptic Terrorism;
3 Geopolitical Turmoil and Civilisational Pluralism;
Part 6 Re imagining and Re making a New World Order Rights Justice and Democratic Governance;
1 The Power of Rights and the Rights of Power What Future for Human Rights;
2 Pursuing Global Justice;
3 Towards Humane Global Governance Rhetoric Desires and Imaginaries;
4 Towards a Necessary Utopianism Democratic Global Governance;
5 ReImagining the Global Governance;
6 The Citizen Pilgrim;
Bibliography;
Index