"We are witnessing the rise of what I call "a fragmented globality." World histories and local histories are at once b…"

"[D]isequilibrium will dominate the twenty-first century, as will efforts to contain the United States. It will be a d…"

"Old institutions have shattered, but new ones have not yet emerged. The twenty-first century will be a period in whic…"

"When I was growing up in the 1950s, the twenty-first century was an idea associated with science fiction, not a reali…"

"Dear friends, Let’s be clear: human activities are at the root of our descent towards chaos. But that means human act…"

"The twenty-first century will be the American century... [T]he twenty-first century truly began on September 11, 2001…"

"Hopelessness is becoming the hallmark of the 21st century."

"If I could just take a moment, I had an assignment the other day. Someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsu…"

"Du Bois, in The Souls of Black Folk, argued that the theme of the twentieth century was the color line. In my view, t…"

"The international system of the twenty-first century will be marked by a seeming contradiction: on the one hand, frag…"