Society under siege

The first part of the book is devoted to the new global arena in which, thanks to the powerful forces of globalization, there is no ´outside´, no secluded place to which one can retreat and hide away, and where the territorial wars of the past have given way to a new breed of ´reconnaissan wars´. The second part deals with setting in which life politics has taken hold and flourished. Bauman argues that the great challenge facing us today is whether we can find new ways to reforge the human diversity that is our fate into the vocation of human solidarity.