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 • POST GLOBALIZATION• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007• MADE IN CHINA• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY• PLANET OF SLUMS• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY OF FEAR • THE OTHER• POST-NATIONALLITERATURE • COLLAPSE OR MASSIVECHANGE? • THE RISE AND FALL OFAMERICA'S SOFT POWER • THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY• SCULPTURE AND THE NEW SCIENCE • BIOTECH AND THE NEW BABEL • WAR THROUGH THE BACK DOOR • ANTIAMERICANISM• THE RISING SOFT POWEROF CHINA & INDIA • THE BUSH DOCTRINE• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILEWORLD • AMERICA'S MIGHT• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY• ANTIGLOBOS• HOT PEACE• MODUS VIVENDI• LOOKING NORTH• FROM WELL HAVING TOWELL BEING • POST-HUMAN HISTORY• GLOBAPHOBIA• THE GLOBAL MIND• AFTER KOSOVO• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO• DEGLOBALIZATION?• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX • BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND[BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA • BEYOND CAPITALISM• ASIAN CRISIS• CHINA: THE ASIANRENAISSANCE • SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL• ECLIPSE OF THE BIGPICTURE • AFTER THE END OFHISTORY • THE EAST IS RED AGAIN• HALF-A-HEGEMON• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM• HEIMAT• Fall 1987• Winter 1987• Spring 1986• Fall-Winter '84-'85• Spring 1984 |
Changing of the Guard in Great Britain John Gray, one of Britain's most interesting social thinkers these days, is a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and author of Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age (Routledge, London, 1995) and After Social Democracy (Demos, 1996). Oxford - A new social and political settlement, the historic successor of postwar social democracy, is under construction in Britain. On May 1 the British electorate dismissed the Conservatives as a party unfit to govern the United Kingdom. By inflicting on the Tories their worst humiliation since the Great Reform Act of 1832 the electorate has made Tony Blair's modernization of the Labor Party an unalterable fact of British political life. After such a vindication there can be no question of Blair's modernizing strategy being derailed in government by any reversion to old Labor thinking. Instead the question is what modernization means for the country that Blair's government has inherited. Which modernity has Britain embarked upon? back to index
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