Negotiations of the New World

Global is everywhere - recent years have seen a significant proliferation of the adjective global across discourses. But what do social actors actually do when using this term?Written from within the political studies and International Relations disciplines, and with a particular interest in the US, this book demonstrates that the widespread use of global is more than a linguistic curiosity. It constitutes a distinct political phenomenon of major importance: the negotiation and reproduction of the new world . As such, the analysis of the use of global provides fascinating insights into an influential and politically loaded aspect of contemporary imaginations of the world.