Abstract

"If the twentieth century was characterized by the struggle between freedom and tyranny, the great battle of the twenty-first century, Joan Smith predicts, will be between global capitalism and universal human rights. While acknowledging that there is no easy route to creating a fairer, more humane world, we do, she believes, 'have before us the opportunity to create a new kind of society whose values, because they are based on respect rather than coercion, can truly claim to be more moral than anything that has gone before'."--BOOK JACKET.