Global Civil Society : Contested Futures Hardback
Edited by Gideon Baker, David (University of Westminster, UK) Chandler
Part of the Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics series
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For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity.
This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself.
Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations.
Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:218 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780415354806
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:218 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:28/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780415354806
