Global Civil Society: Contested Futures Contributor(s): Baker, Gideon (Editor), Chandler, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415429781 ISBN-13: 9780415429788 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Globalization - Social Science |
Dewey: 300 |
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Pol |
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.69 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |