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Article: Precarious Balances. The Middle Ages of the Next Millennium.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Charles Stewart Goodwin, ed. Precarious Balances. The Middle Ages of the Next Millennium. Lanham: University Press of America, 1999. xiv + 523 pp. $46.50.
IN PRECARIOUS BALANCES: The Middle Ages of the Next Millennium, Charles Stewart Goodwin tackles the daunting task of undertaking a pluridisciplinary study of the possible social, economic and political dynamics of the twenty-first century, and how they will affect global structures that mark the end of our century. Goodwin's basic hypothesis, which he announces at the very outset of his work, is:
If we, at the apex of the developed world, can provide the leadership to
strengthen institutions and ...