Theory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution - Brossura

Shaw

 
9780521597302: Theory of the Global State: Globality as an Unfinished Revolution

Sinossi

This book, first published in 2000, analyses global change which critiques modern social thought and global theory, examining global-democratic revolution.

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Descrizione del libro

This ambitious book, first published in 2000, rewrites the terms of debate about globalization. Martin Shaw offers a fundamental critique of modern social thought and global theory. Required reading for sociology, politics and international relations, the book gives a historical, theoretical and political framework for understanding state and society in the emerging global age.

Contenuti

Part I. Critique: 1. Globality: historical change in our time; 2. Critique of national and international relations; 3. Intimations of globality: Hamlet without the Prince; Part II. History and Agency: 4. Internationalized bloc-states and democratic revolution; 5. Global revolution, counterrevolution and genocidal war; Part III. State: 6. State in globality; 7. Relations and forms of global state power; 8. Contradictions of state power: towards the global state?; 9. Politics of the unfinished revolution.

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