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Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. By Philip Allott. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016, Pp. xi, 368. Index. $135.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2018

Richard Falk*
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara

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References

1 Philip Allot, Eunomia: New Order for a New World, at xli (2001).

2 Id. at lii.

3 Allott sets forth his purpose in writing Eutopia along these lines at several points (pp. 215, 260, 269, 296, 312–13).

4 Indeed, it is not possible to ignore the first book in approaching the even more elaborate framework of Eutopia.

5 Allott, Eunomia, supra note 1, at xxxiv.

6 Id. at xxvii.

7 Id.

8 My formulation of the human non-responsiveness to these darker forces that currently pose such formidable challenges of global scope is set forth in an essay, Falk, Richard, Does the Human Species Wish to Survive?, in Richard Falk, Power Shift: On the New Global Order 253–62 (2016)Google Scholar.

9 See discussions of Derrida's focus on living together in Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace (Elisabeth Weber ed., 2012); also Fred Dallmayr, Democracy to Come: Politics as Relational Praxis (2017).

10 See Saul H. Mendlovitz, On the Creation of a Just World Order: Preferred Worlds for the 1990s (1975); Richard Falk, A Study of Future Worlds (1975).

11 See Hans Küng, A Global Ethic for a Global Politics and Economics (1998).

12 See Allott, Eunomia, supra note 1, at xlvii.

13 All references in this and succeeding paragraphs are to id. at xlviii.

14 See Henry Kissinger, World Order (2014). For critique, see Falk, Richard, Henry Kissinger: Hero of Our Time, 40 Millennium 155–64 (July 6, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.