Outline of a book published in Dutch, English, German and Hungarian on the past and future of the phenomenon that is widely called globalisation.

The original intention of the so-called third way is to step beyond the division between the old left and the new right. This was meant to be the basis for the renewal of social democracy. In practical sense, the main objective of third way thinkers is to explain why the post-war welfare state has to be abolished.

The manifest aim of the Afghan war is to fight international terrorism. War, however, is strongly linked to the general geopolitical objectives of the US. This has fundamental social, political and economic consequences in the Islamic world, and will have an impact on left-wing movements all around the world.