The View from Prague
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The View from Prague

The Expectations of World Leaders at the Dawn of the 21st Century

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The View from Prague

The Expectations of World Leaders at the Dawn of the 21st Century

About this book

This work is the result of the Forum 2000 conferences initiated by Václav Havel and Elie Wiesel. The book is based mainly on the first five conferences which were held in Prague from 1997.The first essay written by Václav Havel deals with spiritual preconditions of the global survival of humankind, and the second one is the quintessence of Havel's views on the world which we have inherited as well as his views on our hopes for the future. The book closes with Havel's personal reflection on the deeper meaning and aim of the Forum 2000 meetings.Subsequent chapters analyze and interpret the ideas that were expressed by the speakers and interlocutors of the first five conferences in which they tried to identify and understand the primary issues facing mankind globally. Reflections deal with the main dimensions of globalization and with their synchronicities as well as asynchronicities based on the quintessences of the annual conference reports.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Editorial Note
  6. List of Contributors
  7. How the Idea of Forum 2000 Emerged Jiří Musil and Takeaki Hori
  8. Part I. Our World
  9. Spiritual Preconditions for Our Common Global Survival
  10. The World We Have Inherited, Our World Today, and Hopes for the Future
  11. Part II. Confronting International Discourse on Globalization: Problems and Visions of Our World Today as Seen by the Participiants of the Forum 2000 Conferences
  12. The Importance of Context
  13. How to React to a Plurality of Cultures
  14. Globalization, Society and Culture
  15. Two Examples of Socio-Cultural Disintegration Caused by Globalization
  16. The Importance of Religion
  17. The Transformations of Religion in the Process of Globalization
  18. Awareness of the Relations Between Economics, Politics, Knowledge and Ethics as a Starting Point for Global Governance
  19. Political Globalization
  20. Economy in the Background of Many Discussions on Social and Ethical Problems
  21. An Economic View of the World
  22. The Global Environmental Situation and Human Responsibility
  23. Global Environmental Problems
  24. The View of an Observer
  25. Both the Rationality of Precise Analysis and the Naivety of Ideals Are Needed
  26. Why Forum 2000?
  27. Appendixes
  28. Prague Declaration
  29. Participants of the Forum 2000 Conferences (1997–2005)
  30. Illustrations