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Saskia Sassen, Columbia University. Acknowledgements vii 1 Introduction: Staging Global Risk 1 2 Relations of Defi nition as Relations of Domination: Who Decides What is and is Not a Risk? 24 3 The 'Cosmopolitan Moment' of World Risk Society or: Enforced Enlightenment 47 4 Clash of Risk Cultures or: The Overlapping of the State of Normalcy and the State of Exception 67 5 Global Public Sphere and Global Subpolitics or: How Real is Catastrophic Climate Change? 81 6 The Provident State or: On the Antiquatedness of Linear Pessimism Concerning Progress 109 7 Knowledge or Non-Knowing? Two Perspectives of 'Reflexive Modernization' 115 8 The Insurance Principle: Criticism and Counter-Criticism 129 9 Felt War, Felt Peace: Staging Violence 140 10 Global Inequality, Local Vulnerability: The Conflict Dynamics of Environmental Hazards Must be Studied within the Framework of Methodological Cosmopolitanism 160 11 Critical Theory of World Risk Society 187 12 Dialectics of Modernity: How the Crises of Modernity Follow from the Triumphs of Modernity 212 Notes 235 References and Bibliography 243 Index 261. Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a bookthat called our attention to the dangers of environmentalcatastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporarysocieties.